Name of Educational Leave Scheme

Paid Educational leave

• Introduction
• Legal framework
• Objectives
• Types of training
• Training providers
• Target sector(s)
• Target group(s)
• Eligibility criteria
• Stipulations for participants
• Duration of training
• Status of participants
• Application procedure
• Regulation, control and monitoring procedures
• Funding mechanisms
• Overall funding level
• Payment to persons on leave
• Statistics

According to the Basic Law on the Education System, the purpose of vocational training is to ensure progressive integration into working life through the acquisition of knowledge and vocational skills in line with the country's needs for development and technological advance. Such training also applies to teachers.

Decree Law 448 of 13 November 1979 approves the statute for the career of university teacher and the conditions which apply to granting sabbatical leave. Decree Law 207 of 2 November 1996 amends the regulations governing continuing training for nursery, primary and secondary school teachers. Ministerial Order 23 of 1 April 1998 approves the regulations governing scholarship-holders and Ministerial Order 31 of 6 May 1998 those regulating the award of sabbatical leave to non-university teachers.

Teachers have a legal right to continuing training to enable them to enhance and update their professional knowledge and skills and to permit their job mobility and career advancement.

Initial training which is not paid and continuing training may take the form of training courses, modules, attendance of single-subject courses at institutes of higher education, seminars, training centres, and periods of practical work experience, projects and study circles.

Institutes of higher education, training centres.

Sector of education.

Teachers of elementary and secondary education.

Teachers are entitled to continuing training. Leave granted for continuing training may take the form of sabbatical leave for such purposes as preparing a master's or doctoral thesis or attending specialised courses. Persons holding a scholarship for project work, study, or research mainly directed to education and teaching in general, a doctorate, a course leading to a master's degree, a post-graduate course or a specialist training course are treated on an equal footing. Short courses which a student has attended for less than two-thirds of the total duration cannot be formally certified. An established teacher is entitled to two periods of sabbatical leave. In order to benefit from the first a teacher must have eight years' uninterrupted service. IShort courses are not considered according to the same rules as the longer ones and they are almost always paid by the Ministry of Education.

Short courses which students have attended for less than two thirds of the total duration cannot be formally certified.

Continuing training must cover at least 15 hours with a maximum of five years. A scholarship-holder has a maximum of one year in order to prepare a master's degree. The period may be extended to five years in the case of a doctorate. Sabbatical leave is granted for an academic year. An established teacher is entitled to 2 periods of sabbatical leave. The second period may only be requested after a further seven years service has elapsed since the first period. A scholarship-holder or teacher must have a record of five years' actual service.

People on educational leave are still entitled to the same rights as employed .

YA scholarship-holder must draw up a request addressed to the head of the central department responsible for management of human resources for the education system. In the case of short training courses and where training cannot take place outside normal teaching time, a request for leave, giving reasons, must be submitted to the management body of the school where the teacher is employed at least five days prior to the date on which leave is to begin.

The Ministry of Education involves itself in continuing training through setting priorities for training, drawing up programmes at national level, and through the coordination, administration and assessment of the continuing training system. The General Inspectorate for Education is responsible for the inspection and control of continuing training activity. Councils responsible for scientific teaching and continuing training have been set up. A teacher is required to draw up a final report on his training activity within 180 days from the end of his leave. Continuing training that is regarded as obligatory is assessed by both the trainer and the trainees or the training body, which is ultimately responsible for the assessment. Upon completion of training the teacher must submit a certificate of attendance from the organising body.

The training centres of school associations have their own allocations under the school budget. In order to encourage training which it considers necessary the Ministry of Education may conclude contracts with school associations or institutes of higher education. In the case of sabbatical leave teachers' pay is financed under a specific heading of the Ministry of Education budget.

Short non-obligatory continuing vocational training activities must be paid by the teachers.

While in training, non scholarship-holders receive their normal salary.

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