Education: Islamic Sciences, Arabic, history and geography are abolished from the baccalaureate exams

Recommendations that emerged from the national symposium to assess the school reform process, noticed a set of critics by the educational family, especially in the secondary phase, where the necessary to abolish the Islamic Science in the baccalaureate exam was proposed, so that it will become just a “pre-module” and “decorative”, and only 4 years are kept for the study in the middle stage, and thus the old system will not return to work, as combining the specialties was also proposed.

Informed sources told Echorouk that some of the recommendations that emerged from the national symposium to assess the school reform will blow up the educational family, especially if it is adopted as decisions, as from the beginning of the next school entry, as the BAC graduation, which serves as a fateful exam, was emptied from its identity, through the abolition of basic modules, including the Arabic language, history, geography and Islamic sciences, which means that the Islamic sciences will become just a “secondary” module, and then it will not be given prestige that is granted by the Algerian Constitution and thus the educational system will be emptied from a “basic” module, and it will transferred to a “decorative” module, that is taught to all pupils during the school season, but it is not programmed as an official exam in the baccalaureate, as Arabic language, history and geography were also canceled from the baccalaureate, as they are programmed only as an exam for the following division: Ethics and philosophy, Ethics and Languages, Management and Economy, while the rest of the scientific divisions are not concerned with this module.

Same sources also said that during the National Symposium works, a proposal to dump all the textbooks that are addressed to pupils of literary divisions, from all the fence and Quranic verses, to keep the Quranic texts only in the books of Islamic Education. At a time when there was a focus on the need to use texts of Algerian writers, poets and artists, and their inclusion in school textbooks, especially after the terrible mistake which occurred in the questions of Arabic language, as they attributed a poetry text to the wrong poet. In contrast, the study that was conducted by the National Education Ministry has shown that 80% of the textbooks are taken from the Internet and are anonymous, while only 2% of the texts belong to Algerian writers.