Algeria: Postponement of exams and school holidays on Education Ministry’s back-burner

The National Education Ministry has set up a “crisis cell” to deal with the adverse impact of the latest long drawn-out teachers’ strike which affected most primary and secondary schools in the country.

This crisis cell is entrusted with examining ways and means of salvaging this year’s eroded school year and also safeguarding the credibility of the 2014 Baccalaureate exam.

Well – informed sources told Echorouk that the education ministerial department’s current challenge is how to catch up with the many hours of courses which the primary and secondary school pupils lost over the past three weeks, because of the protracted teachers’ strike staged at the call of the autonomous education unions over socio-professional claims.

The same sources also indicated that the Education Ministry was now considering the option of scrapping the upcoming spring school holidays and putting off the next exams until the late summer season in the hope of catching up with lost time and turning the situation around.