National Education: Nouria Benghabrit “digs up” into Benzaghou’s reforms

The Ministry of National Education, is set to open the outstanding Baccalaureate exam file for a free-wheeling debate, by introducing new radical reforms into the ailing sector, 12 years after the educational reforms initiated by Mr Benzaghou in 2003 with on focus two phenomena, including the warped use of modern technologies and the widespread resort by pupils to private tuitions.

This outstanding file will be the crux of a national symposium due to be held shortly in Algiers in the presence of Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal and other senior officials.

“Echorouk” has learnt from informed sources, that national education Minister Nouria Benghabrit, herself will preside over this upcoming three-day national symposium on secondary school assessment starting from the 24^th of July, 12 years after the reforms enforced in 2003 by then national education minister Benzaghou.

The planned symposium which will bring together scores of officials, executives stemming from the education sector in addition to professors and teachers is slated to be held at the conference hall of Club Des Pins on the western coast of Algiers and its proceedings will last three days.

During this planned national symposium, several workshops will be set up entrusted with addressing the gross deficiencies and lapses now gripping the national education system notably by pinpointing the steady decline in the success rates recorded in the Baccalaureate exams over the past few years as well as the nefarious use of modern technologies by some candidates to “cheat” in the exams in addition to the pervasive phenomenon of private lessons extended by some teachers to pupils outside the school classrooms in return for large sums of money, the same sources added.