Professors in Syria’s Hasakah stop teaching due to low salaries
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – A source of the presidency of al-Fourat University of the Syrian government in Hasakah, northeast Syria, said that about ten professors at the university submitted a letter to the presidency of the university declaring that they would stop teaching due to the low salary and high living expenses.
According to the government source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, the number of signatories to the letter is ten members of the university, who come from the city of Aleppo and teach in the faculties of agricultural and civil engineering and economics in Hasakah.
The faculties of the al-Fourat government University, which was established in 2008, are located in the cities of Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor and Hasakah, but due to the war in Syria, some of them were closed.
On July 11, the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad issued the Legislative Decree No. 19, which stipulates an increase of the salaries of state workers by 50%, and 40% for retirees.
Two days ago, an economic expert living in Damascus told North Press that the increase in the prices of fuel and bread, which was issued before the decision to increase salaries, would lead to the employees not to benefit from it.
The source at the al-Fourat University Presidency attributed the reason for the professors’ decision to stop teaching to the low salaries compared to the “high” living expenses while staying in Hasakah.