Graduates of teacher-training faculties will receive a one-time allowance in the amount of 200,000 lei during the first five years of teaching activity. A one-time allowance of 160,000 lei will also be paid to graduates of professional-technical study programs under the same conditions. The provisions were approved at the ordinary meeting of the Cabinet and, according to the Ministry of Education, come to overcome the shortage of teachers and attract more young people to teaching activity, IPN reports.
In addition to the one-time allowances, the young specialists employed as teachers during the first five years of work will get 1,000 lei per month in compensation for paying for the rented accommodation and 3,000 lei annually to pay for electricity and heat, if they work in public general education institutions in rural areas, in district centers and ATU Gagauzia.
The graduates will be assigned to vacant teaching positions through a competition staged by the Ministry of Education. In order to participate in the competition, the graduates will submit a participation file to the Ministry. In the 2024-2025 academic year, there are about 1,879 vacancies of teacher in the country’s educational institutions.
At the same meeting, the Cabinet decided that young librarians, museographers or artists, graduates of artistic higher education and professional-technical institutions, who will choose to work in villages and towns, according to the assignment, will benefit from a one-time allowance of 90,000 and 120,000 lei respectively from July 1, 2024. According to Minister of Culture Sergiu Prodan, the money will be offered in three equal installments: half of the first installment - after the first month of activity, the second half - at the end of the first year of activity, while the other two installments - at the end of each year of work.
The Ministry of Culture hopes that the graduates of the 2023-2024 academic year will be the first beneficiaries of the one-off allowance and the expenses for granting the allowance for 2024 to young specialists are estimated at 1.3 million lei.
The provisions of the draft law enter into force on July 1, 2024 and are valid only for graduates who, in the first year after graduation, are employed, by assignment by the Ministry of Culture, in public institutions in the field of culture and in structural subdivisions (with or without legal personality) of local public authorities carrying out cultural activities in municipalities, towns or villages (communes).
According to information presented by libraries, museums and the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts of Moldova, 33 specialists were assigned to work in 2023.
Statistical data show that 1,300 local public libraries, 1,194 houses of culture and 132 museums operate in Moldova. Most of the employees of these institutions are over 55 years old and the number of those with higher education in the field has continuously decreased.
