Education: Annual school assessment card for BAC exam “officially” in force this year

Algerian Minister of national education, Nouria Benghabrit has decided not to postpone the taking into account of the annual school assessment card for third year secondary students, while agreeing with the National Federation of associations of parents of pupils on a “common strategy” in order to ensure the stability of those candidates who will sit for official end-of-year exams starting from next June.

In return, the Federation announced the setting up of “listening cells” for the benefit of all candidates gearing up for the 2015 session of the Baccalaureate exam.

The Chairman of the National Federation of parents’ associations, El Hadj Delalou, said in a statement to Echorouk after meeting on Friday evening with the National Education Minister, Nouria Benghabrit, at the Ministry’s headquarters in central Algiers, that it had been agreed to develop “a unified strategy” as a response to all emergencies that may occur during the current academic year, and to address both the “adverse” circumstances that don’t serve the students themselves and the Algerian school as a whole.

This unified action-plan agreed upon by the two sides will allow for the smooth running of the enrolment of pupils, especially those who will sit for the 2015 BAC examination in order to ensure the stability of the sector as a whole, he added.

He also explained that the education Minister also agreed in principle on the pending issue regarding the necessity of a “technical-oriented education” with the enforcement of a new teaching methodology, in order to make the Algerian school and university tally with the needs of the fast-evolving national market.