Residents and official figures from the town of Tikrit staged Monday a sit-in outside the town’s public technical school, to voice objection to Education Minister Elias Bou Saab’s approval of applications for contract teachers from outside the town and rejecting the applications of those hailing from the town.
A statement issued by the Mayor and other officials said that “the technical institute’s director has filed a new application for the contract teachers from Tikrit, hoping that it will be approved.”
The statement stressed that the town’s residents also have university degrees and they are keen on preserving the institute.