{"id":176318,"date":"2018-05-21T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/sudanese-exam-correctors-protest-pay-cuts\/"},"modified":"2018-05-21T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T13:42:00","slug":"sudanese-exam-correctors-protest-pay-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-exam-correctors-protest-pay-cuts","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese exam correctors protest pay cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dozens of secondary school exams correctors demonstrated in Khartoum on Sunday in protest against the deduction of their dues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Teachers Union deducted SDG 460 ($ 16*) from the payment the correctors of the secondary school exams were supposed to receive this year.<\/p>\n

Duriya Babikir, a leading member of the Teachers Committee, told Radio Dabanga that the correctors staged a sit-in in front of El Zahra school that functioned as a correction centre in April and May.<\/p>\n

“The Teachers Union subtracted SDG 300 for the provision of services and SDG 160 for three breakfasts during the first days of Ramadan,” she said.<\/p>\n

“The [governmental] Teachers Union told the correctors to stop the vigil. If not the security forces would disperse them by force.”<\/p>\n

Babikir pointed out that about one third of the correctors are staff members of the Ministry of Education rather than teachers.<\/p>\n

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In end April, teachers who travelled to Khartoum for the correction job complained about the conditions they were working and living in.<\/p>\n

One of them told this station<\/a> that he and his colleagues were accommodated in a poorly equipped school building in the Sudanese capital.<\/p>\n

“Apart from the large distance between the school and the correction centre, the school lacks even the most basic facilities such as beds, sheets and pillows,” he complained.<\/p>\n

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* Based on the indicative US Dollar rate quoted by the Central Bank of Sudan (CBoS)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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