Education Minister Draxler: pay hikes in the past did not make it to all teachers

Some teachers might not have seen a 22-percent hike on their payslips that the Education, Science, research and Sport Ministry and the Prime Minister Robert Fico talked about recently, Minister Juraj Draxler admitted. Speaking in a discussion organised by the initiative Enough, Let's Not Gamble With the Future of Slovakia, Draxler suggested that the reason behind this unequal distribution is that money often gets lost within the non-transparent system. "Therefore, it's necessary to do a larger clean-up in regional education finances," he said, adding that there are no clear rules on how to distribute the resources and for how they trickle down to individual salaries. The minister also insists that the demands raised by protesting teachers cannot be accommodated straight away. He stressed that the additional funding of €650 million for 2016, as demanded by the discontent teachers, represents an enormous figure that cannot be approved within a few days.