Algeria to separate education sector from public service
Nouria Benghebrid, Algeria's education minister. Photo: archives
A report that was prepared by the National Council of Teachers of Secondary and Technical Expanded Education, showed that most of the professors when reaching the age of 45 years, want to change their jobs, and choose independent careers or managerial positions outside the sector, because of the pressures they face throughout their professional careers.
Conversely government asked for the separation of the National Education from the General Directorate of Public Service, in order to enable them to take advantage of the “privileges” of the private sector.
National Secretary in charge of Information and Communication at the National Council for Independent Teachers in Secondary and Expanded Technical Education, Messaoud Boudiba, told Echorouk, the pension file is among the core files that were demanded by the syndicate since 11 years ago, to allow teachers to go out in real retirement after 25 years of actual service.
“After the investigation it was shows that most of the teachers in the three educational phases, and after reaching the age of 45, they either leave teaching profession irreversibly, ie, go in the “pre-retirement” or change their jobs, and choose independent careers like trade or find themselves searching for “administrative functions. We regret the rejection of Prime Ministry to respond to the demand of enabling teachers to retire after 25 years of active service.”
“Working conditions that are surrounding the professors are not encouraging at all, nor motivating him to work extra time in the educational institution, in addition to the absence of specialized training, the professors, and since graduation from the universities, find themselves unable to benefit from any special training in educational psychology, with the exception of seminars and meetings conducted with the inspectors. Health conditions also forced teachers to leave the teaching profession, especially as most of them do not discover the disease only in a very advanced state, especially chronic ones, and therefore it is difficult for them to even to receive treatment.”