Baba Ahmed: “No threshold in the BAC, exams' postponement due to the strike”

National Education Minister, Baba Ahmed Abdellatif, said he will be forced to postpone the three official examinations if the strike will continue.

“It is impossible to rectify the missed lessons because the time is not enough, at the time in which he announced his complete rejection of the “threshold”, on the grounds that the pupil has the right to receive full program”.

Education Minister added, on the sidelines of the school day, which was organized on Saturday, at Hassiba Ben Bouali Secondary School in Algiers Kouba, on the reform of the public service in the National Education sector, in a statement that was strongly worded, prompting the three striking syndicates, that; “Until now, my services have not yet received any notice of whether to continue the strike or postpone it commenting. As a responsible of the sector I must obtain a stamped letter. We are in a ministerial sector, and we have multiple channels of dialogue, but reality shows that we are in a talks.My main and core mission is not only limited to the conduct of strikes, but his task is running the entire sector in all its aspects”.

Regarding the missed lessons due to the open strike, which entered its fourth week, the Minister Baba Ahmed asserted that he will be forced to postpone the organization of the three official examinations, “certificate of the end of the primary, middle school certificate and baccalaureate.

“Compensation process is impossible because the remaining weeks of study do not exceed more than 5 weeks. I explicitly refuse the ” threshold lessons” because the pupils have the right to pursue an undiminished program of studyt, and a full program in the various knowledge”.

In the same context, the minister described some of the syndicates’ demands as “logical”, saying; “Personally I defended them, but some other demands are illegal, and therefore I can not negotiate with the government and propose demands that are neither reasonable nor legal, especially those relating to the requirement to upgrade unconditionally, a demand which is impossible. Syndicates aim to prevent the ministry from addressing the fundamental affairs of the sector in general, and the pupil in particular.