EVERY CHILD NEEDS A QUALIFED TEACHER By Ms. Leng Theavy GLOBAL ACTION WEEK TH -10 TH MAY 2013

KEY MESSAGES Teacher’s shortage Equal pay for primary and lower secondary school teachers Wage rise can be afforded Increasing wage can lead to increase quality Public support for increasing wages

1.TEACHER SHORTAGE Number of primary teachers has fallen by 671 since 2008/09 school year Pupil teacher ratio 47.3:1, (16 th highest rate in the world) To become a primary teachers: - No choice - Salary is rarely a motivating factor

1.TEACHER SHORTAGE Some reasons of the shortages: - Current primary teaching leaving to become lower secondary school teachers - Low pay : salary below average GDP per capita of $ Salary below low skill job such adrivers, construction workers or public administrators

2.EQUAL PAY Primary school teachers receive much lower pay than secondary school teachers and others They should receive the same because : - Same qualification (12+2) - Teaching more hours - Harder work Attract more qualified candidates

3. Widening wage gap among teachers

3. Widening wage gap among teachers (cont)

Among 42 countries which UNESCO has statistic: A new Primary teacher pay = 96% of a new lower secondary teacher pay and = 93% of a new upper secondary school teacher Cambodia: A new primary school teacher receive 71% of what a new lower secondary teacher receives and 49% of what a new upper secondary teacher receives.

RECOMMENDATIONS The government should increase primary teacher basic wage to equal lower secondary school teachers ($83.60) Plus the functional allowance $18.70 Equal total of $102.30

4. WAGE RISES CAN BE AFFORDED With the rise to $102.3 for primary teacher pay (45 840), the total increase for the government is $16,648,195 per annum. Under-spending by MoEYS 2012 : $25,705, 498$ of which under spending of personnel cost is $20,703,744

5. PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR INCREASING WAGES 86% of respondents advised that a fair basic wage would be more than $90 per month 52% actually felt that teachers should receive more than $120 per month

5. PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR INCREASING WAGES

6. RISING PAY LINKED TO QUALITY Reasons for increase : Evidences show that 10% increase in teacher pay lead to 5%-10% increase in student performance. ( Marcenaro-Gutierrez&Dolton,2011) Increasing instructional hours Reducing absenteeism

PLAN AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF GAW 2013 Radio talk show program at VOD Comedian story on “every child need a good teacher” at CTN Organize provincial events during the GAW Produced campaign materials as follows: posters

PLAN AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF GAW wristbands (on-going) - 10 banners -A survey on contract teachers in three provinces ( 30 contract teachers, 17 school principals, 3 DoE) GCE Facebook page: Cambodian Campaign for Education 56 likes, 2083 people read the facebook page within the last week

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION