Algerian Students continue protests and blocked roads in Constantine

Students launched on Sunday a strike in all faculties of the university chanting the slogan “No study no exams until consideration of students demands”, “Confidence in documents minister “.

 Students stopped studying to show solidarity with engineers who organized several protests before the university administration asking for the suspension of discriminatory actions compared to the masters’ students after the cancellation of certificate of state engineer to replace it with five years of higher education, as well as drop the class from 16 to 13 compared to holders of masters 2 who were classified in class 14 at a time masters students who studied eight years are equal with masters students who studied only five years.

Protesters decided to continue pressure through stopping studies in eastern universities which count over 50.000 students to oblige the Ministry of Higher Education to respond to the demands of students.

previously, About a thousand students have put on a protest this morning in Algiers in front of the offices of the Higher Education Ministry. Students from a number of specialisation institutes as well as the Algiers and Boumerdes universities have for days been staging protests against new regulations that ”devalues their diplomas”. ” This decree is a humiliation for us, with our diplomas we can don nothing,” they say. ”We will continue to protest until it is withdrawn.” The presidential decree, dated December 13, changed the required qualifications for specific jobs. The Algerian press reports that protests are also underway in other universities in the country: in Oran, Tizi Ouzou, Blida and in the southern city of Laghouat. Moreover, students from IT, agronomy, architecture and engineering specialisation institutes are protesting.