Algeria : Education Ministry to alleviate syllabus in secondary and primary schools

On the basis of a 6 mouth-long methodology study worked out by an ad-hoc commission, the National Education Ministry has decided to initiate a new rejuvenation process aimed at drastically alleviating the syllabus in Algeria's secondary and primary schools.

These new regulations are designed to scrap the constraints and the heaviness of the current school syllabus which penalizes, according to pupils’ parents and teachers alike, the school students in the assimilation of their daily courses.

The National Education Ministry has therefore decided to suppress a total of 54 programs in the secondary cycle including 19 for final-grade students and to curtail from 29 to 24 hours the weekly timing of courses destined to pupils in primary schools in order to upgrade their chances of success in their respective exams.

These new alleviation measures will come into force as early as the next school year 2008/2009.