Education Syndicates: “Bengabrit fell into the trap of the baccalaureate's annoying parties”
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Nouria Benghebrid, Algeria's education minister. Photo: archive
Syndicates raised, in their evaluation of the conditions that characterized the conduct of the baccalaureate exams of June 2015, until its fourth day, on Wednesday, a lot of puzzlement about the way the Education Minister, Nouria Benghabrit, dealt with cases of cheating that were recorded in the ranks of candidates, and which occurred this time with the methods of using technology and publishing news about the exploitation of other new communication technologies like the 3G system.
They strongly criticized the minister’s official statements to the media about this subject, arguing that she gave the impression to everyone that it comes to a prevalent phenomenon, rather than exposing the tasks and responsibility of the ministry regarding the reforms in the secondary school stage, and raising the value of the baccalaureate degree, and avoiding to talk about the subject of cheating with the heads of Exams’ Centers, without talking to the rest of officials.
According to Mr. Mohamed Ous, a member of the National Union of Teachers of Secondary and Technical Education, Benghabrit, with this act, probably fell into the trap of those who are plotting against her.
“Cheating of the candidates, even if it reached the degree of a phenomenon, it always remains probable in all the countries of the world, as it is in terms of the methods that are used in it, which I never get surprised when they evolve by various technological means and modern techniques, but with the exit of the minister in front of public, and talking about the subject of fraud, rather than merely directing the responsibility to officials of centers and parties which organize the guarding operations, she exaggerated, and may have contributed to laxity and negligence in the operations of guarding the exams’ halls, and harming the credibility and integrity of the results of this session.”
Other teachers believe that she would have addressed the ministry’s plans in the context of improving education and bringing it to a level that actually qualifies the pupils who will succeed in the baccalaureate to win seats at the university, and a lot of things that are in the sector’s depth desired reforms, as the majority agree on the ministry’s task to combat cheating by using educational ways and scientific means that matched with the technological development, focusing on the educational side to sensitize the pupils since their young age, and advising them to avoid cheating through counseling and educational guidance, with the involvement of relevant ministries along the lines with the Post and Communication Technologies Ministry to combat cheating with scientific means, and not with repression and police methods.
