Algeria: Over 200 high-schools without headmasters and vice-principals next year

The recent controversial measures taken by the National Education Ministerial department regarding the status and salary-scheme of the education personnel across the national territory have disrupted the smooth running of numerous secondary schools.

As a result, scores of headmasters and vice-principals have so far refused to apply for senior jobs within the country’s high-schools for the next 2013-2014 academic year.

Reliable sources told Echorouk that over 200 posts including those of high-school headmasters and vice-principals would remain vacant next year as a sign of anger at certain controversial provisions contained in the recent special law on the specific salary-scale and duties of the educational staff.

The latter have up to now declined to vie for new employments on account of the new regulations’ failure to scale up their monthly salaries, arguing that these salaries are far from being up to their legitimate aspirations given their senior positions in high-schools’ management.