Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed an order on increasing the salaries of teachers, who passed diagnostic assessment of knowledge and skills.

Under the presidential order on increasing the workload and salary of secondary school teachers, who have passed diagnostic assessment of knowledge and skills, the monthly salaries will be increased by an average of ten percent from April 1, 2016.

The Cabinet of Ministers has been instructed to approve scheme and amount of salaries, salary increments of teachers, headmasters and deputy headmasters of educational institutions that have passed diagnostic assessment of knowledge and skills by April 1, 2016.