Education: Six Years’ Primary School System to be adopted again

Reports that were sent by the Education Directorates of Wilayas to the Ministry of National Education agreed on demanding a return to the adoption of the six years in primary education instead of 5 years, after 10 years of application of the system in the field, in order to raise the level of Algerian schools, especially after checking on the ground that the pupils have become unable to absorb the vast amount of information at an early age.

Informed sources told Echorouk that the reports that were prepared by the Education Community, including inspectors, managers, professors and associations of pupils’ parents, through the process of assessment to evaluate the progress of compulsory education, which application begun in 2003, had confirmed that the time has come to return to the introduction of six years at the primary level, instead of 5 years, quoting the different and large drawbacks that were left by the system of 5 years, so that it has been shown in the field after 10 years of its adoption that most of the pupils, if not all of them are finding it very difficult to absorb information which result from the vast amount of knowledge within books, because of their age, and therefore Education Ministry did not observe the “pupils’ age” when it launched the adoption of this system on the grounds that the degree of absorption capacity varies from one pupil to another.

Same reports said that the Ministry of National Education has adopted in contrast to the policy of escaping forward for fear of the high rate of failure in the end of primary schools’ exam, through resorting to the creation of a second session in the exam for pupils who fail, in order to cover the deficit and the drawbacks, though, it did not succeed in this, because the analysis of the results has shown that the vast majority of pupils move on to the first year middle school during the first session, and thus 4% of them only are pupils who have moved to the middle school in the redressing session at the national level, a volume which is described by Observers to Education as very low, a reality that was proven by investigation, which was completed on “redressing session”, so that it concerned all the years of reform, starting from the year 2003 until 2013.

Same sources added that the reports have proven that the adoption of 5 years’ system in primary school, serves as a policy that depends primarily on the quantity, and does not recognize the level and quality at all.