“The new law is oriented towards teachers’ social care and was directed to attract more teachers to the countryside and rural schools and kindergartens,” said R. Munkhjargal, officer of the government administration and management department of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.

The newly amended law article no. 43.1.4 says, “If an educator works as a teacher in any level school or kindergarten for more than 25 years and if 10 of those years were in rural areas then his/her educational training organization will issue a monetary allowance equal to his/her 18 month salary  amount when he/she retires.”

R. Munkhjargal told MonInfo on Monday, “The government has a duty to appoint teachers, educational, scientific and academic officials graduated with funding from state foundations to work in the countryside and rural areas.”

According to officials, Members of Parliament passed the amendments to the laws on education, law on higher education and law on primary and secondary school education.

The amendments to the package law were initiated by the Government and some of MPs and were passed during the last discussion of Friday’s session.

The article, “Educational training organizations will keep students away from discrimination, imposing physical and psychological penalty and any pressure or violations,” was added as article no. 42.6 in the newly amended law.

Munkhjargal said, “The Ministry’s working group is developing the draft on teachers’ ethics as well.”

“Teachers who imposed physical and psychological damage to students, pressured students to give money and to purchase books and products and revealed private things about students will be penalized MNT 10,000-30,000 and any officers and managers will be penalized MNT 40,000 – 60,000,” says the newly amended article 48.2.6 of the law on Education.

J. Galbadrakh, Director of ‘New Mongolia’, private high school said, “I support the new amendments to the law on Education and the curriculum needs to be more flexible which enables individual schools to develop its own program more comprehensively.”

“It is not academic if we only have to follow the 330th decree of the Minister in terms of curriculum,” he added.