Tunisia-Mohammad Safi reveals University of Secondary Education’s precautions concerning downloading numbers via the platform

 General Secretary of the University of Secondary Education, Mohammad Safi shed light on the union’s standpoint regarding the use of the platform provided by the Ministry for teachers to upload student grades. Safi noted several concerns the Secondary Education Syndicate has concerning this process.

He underscored that the supervisory authority failed to consult with the union on this matter, which has been a point of contention since 2019. While the union does not object to modernizing administrative processes, it demands clarity on various aspects necessary for securing the platform, remarking it has encountered several issues and difficulties from its inception.

An important point of debate revolves around the responsibility for inputting the grades into the system—whether it should fall under the teachers’ purview or the administrators’. According to an agreement between the supervisory authority and the union, this task is explicitly specified as an administrative duty, not one for the teachers.

Safi called for negotiations on this and other unresolved issues, highlighting the union’s desire for dialogue.

Additionally, he said that an early March meeting of the administrative body resolved to stage a demonstration in front of the Ministry of Education. This demonstration, scheduled to include teachers, the Basic Education Syndicate, and other educational bodies, seeks to voice their collective dissatisfaction with the Ministry of Education’s reluctance to engage in negotiations about agreements made in 2019 and 2023.