Education minister sticks to the exams timetable despite protests

Unlike his Egyptian opposite number, who decided to put off the baccalaureate by four days until the end of the match opposing the “Pharaohs” to the “Fenecs”, the Algerian minister Abu Bakr Ben Bouzid has definitely pushed aside the move sticking to the original timetable arguing that the dates were fixed well before.

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• The first day of the examinations is slated for tomorrow, a day after the crucial match.
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• The same minister was behind several contradictory decisions in the past, he has ordered the teaching of French at primary schools as from the second year as part of the reformations policy he advocated to make a U-Turn and issued an order to teach this language in the third year.
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• He didn’t dare to change the date of this year’s baccalaureate exams that coincides with the biggest event in the national football, since the national squad is playing to book the ticket for the next World Cup competition in South Africa.
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• This decision has spoiled the candidates’ concentration along with more than 500 thousand civil servants called up by the ministry to supervise this exam. Some of them have declared to “Echorouk” that the defeat of the Algerian squad will be disastrous for them and will affect their abilities the day of the exam.
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• It should be noted that influential unions in the education sector along with the parents’ associations have called on the minister to postpone the exams until the end of this big event, but he turned down their request.