Benghabrit: “Children’s Parents Should Protect Pupils From Nefarious Freemasonry”

The Minister of National Education, Nouria Benghabrit, pledged Sunday that she’ll strive to enhance the teaching of Tamazight, after visiting a school section for teaching Tamazight in the Ain Kercha municipality, adding that this language is currently being studied across 23 provinces of the country.

Speaking during a press conference held on the sidelines of her working visit to Oum El Bouaghi province (eastern Algeria), Ms Benghabrit highlighted the need for concerted efforts in order to stamp out the risk of Freemasonry activities as uncovered recently in some school institutions of the country.

The national education minister blamed the children’s parents for shirking their responsibility in the need to control media content, which the pupils receive daily over the Internet.

Regarding hiring, Ms Benghabrit said that the ministry will open recruitment competitions shortly to fill vacancies caused by the departure of thousands of professors or inspectors who opted for retirement in 2016.

She also pointed to the imperious necessity for ensuring a good training for the benefit of teachers so as to guarantee a high-grade scientific level in line with the aspirations of the vital national education sector.

Ms Benghabrit further said that the priority is granted this year to the pedagogical aspect and to the recommendations of the reform assessment conferences. Special emphasis is placed on the mandatory education, notably at the primary level with a set of measures, like the educational process and training of teachers.

“We work for a management based on a prospective vision in the light of the action plan implemented by the Ministry for the current school year, with reference to the Constitution, the framework law on national education and the government’s program,” said the minister.

Furthermore, Ms Benghabrit underlined that the implementation of this action plan requires the mobilization of all players, in an atmosphere full of serenity and stability.

Ms Nouria Benghabrit also assured that the fruit of the reforms under way in the national education sector will be clearly visible in nine (9) years from now.

The results of these reforms will appear when current primary school pupils reach the end of the middle cycle, the minister said in reply to the concerns of heads of institutions, inspectors and sector partners, as part of her two-day working visit to Oum El Bouaghi province.

Noting that these reforms are committed to the two essential levels of pedagogy and governance, Ms Benghabrit expressed her readiness for dialogue, listening and addressing the concerns of workers of the sector.

While highlighting the colossal efforts made by the State in this province through multiple projects for boosting the various levels of education, the minister regretted the meager results obtained there at the end of the school year exams.