Schools and Education

Decaying schools, teachers with no rights, strikes, failures or school dropouts... The educational system in Tunisia suffers from multiple problems and awaits a reform that is constantly postponed. The private sector is increasingly growing, to the expense of equal opportunities.
Schools and Education
Hayet, a teacher without rights: The unspoken truth about education
Hortense Lac
| 03 January 2019 | 10 minutes
35 year-old Hayet* has been working as a Spanish language teacher in the Greater Tunis region for the past 10 years. She works in overcrowded classrooms, in the same conditions as her colleagues. Well, almost. Hayet does not have a contract, she is a substitute teacher.
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