Baccalaureate candidates will have 15 days off for revision, says ministry
High schools in Algeria are experiencing a “circulars war” as notes are distributed to Baccalaureate candidates to claim for a number of rights and protest next to the education ministry’s headoffice on February 27th.
Those circulars are widely posted on social media. They come one day after unions stopped their strike. The ministry reassured pupils that the 15-day-revision period would not be cancelled this year.
A circular distributed to a number of high schools in Algiers claims for the right of pupils to have Spring holidays, to postpone second trimester exams, not to take into account the second trimester average in report cards, not to distribute duplicated copies without explanation and to give 15 days to pupils to revise before the Baccalaureate exams.
The circular mentioned the legal article which stipulated the right in going on strike. It called on pupils to protest next to the education’s ministry on February 27th.
Press attaché at the ministry Faicel Hafaf said there is no reason to postpone exams as the pedagogical procedure which assessed the strike effects on programs showed the “lack of pedagogical justifications” for this.
He added that the ministry will give 15 days off to exams in May to revise for their final exams. “Pupils should not be worried.”
“After the pedagogical assessment of the situation, the ministry will give an instruction to education directors to carry out actions following the strike,” he said.