National Education Ministry intent on curtailing school drop-out rate

The National Education Ministry has taken a set of measures aimed at scaling down the school drop-out rate in Algeria with a host of new regulations to shore up school attendance and to upgrade the quality of the school curricula at all levels starting from primary school cycle.

An instruction number 13.11 issued Wednesday by the National Education Ministerial department was sent to all the Education directorates across the 48 provinces of the country enjoining them to enforce these measures banning the outright exclusion of failing pupils from school and giving them the chance of repeating the school-year in the hope of allowing them catch up with their successful fellow pupils and join the upper classes.

The National Education Ministry’s instruction stated that school attendance should be compulsory for all children as early as the age of six throughout the country.

It also brought into focus the imperious necessity of enhancing the academic teaching level by allowing those teachers in the primary, intermediate and secondary cycles not yet enjoying high pedagogical skills, to benefit from regular training sessions according to their proclaimed needs and wishes.