Education: Last school season exceptional due to strikes, Minister Benghabrit says
Nouria Benghabrit, Algeria's education minister. Photo: Echorouk
Demands of Syndicates in the South are legitimate, but the sector is sensitive, Education Minister, Nouria Benghabrit said.
“It is Education sector before being Teaching sector. Despite the problems that are suffered by the teacher including the instability and lack of housing, but it is necessary to recruit all energies to raise the level of education in the Wilaya. I call upon the syndicates, in case they will to resort to striking, to avoid being long and at the expense of the student. They can use other ways to express teaching.”
“Primary cause of the decline in the level of the BAC laureates’ results in Southern cities in recent years, especially last year, is the large number of strikes that were launched by independent syndicates. Instability of human resources, especially teachers is one of the reasons for the low level of exam results, especially the Baccalaureate results that have been disastrous, making the most of the southern cities go down to the bottom of the ranking, despite the high proportion nationally.”
“School Year 2013 was exceptional, as a result of the large number of strikes for a whole semester.”
“As for the problem of shortage in teachers of foreign languages in the Southern cities mandates the south, the university contributed currently in the reduction of the lack by opening specialties in English and French.”