Education: No camping, no weddings in schools this summer, Minister Benghabrit says
Nouria Benghebrit, Algeria's education minister. Photo: archive
National Education Minister, Nouria Benghabrit Ramoune, gave the official start of the exams of middle school from Mohamed Ben Yahia school in Jijel province (eastern Algeria), where the number of candidates reached 542.000 candidates at the national level, and announced on tightening control by preventing the use of smartphones and inspection of candidates, to try to avoid a repeated scenario of cheating in the baccalaureate.
During the press conference, at the headquarters of the province, she vowed the cheaters in the next BAC 2016, to apply exclusion for a full five years and in terms of figures, she said that over 456 baccalaureate candidates are excluded in 2015, including 293 free and 162 pupils because of the use of third-generation technology in cheating.
To reconsider the educational institutions especially the Primary schools, the minister confirmed that it was decided to prevent the organization of weddings and camping in the summer of 2015, as usual, as the doors of these institutions are usually open to receive families, and the Islamic Scouts thus they get exposed to vandalism.
She said explicitly said: “Will pupils join these schools, at the beginning of each academic season, especially the new pupils, while they are wearing the new clothes to find their desks and chairs improper and subversive?
“What happened in the baccalaureate is an attempt to cheat by using the third-generation technology. I will continue the investigation into the identity of the perpetrators because the state owns all the means of detecting them and perhaps bring them to justice to continue the investigation.”