Scrapping of certificate testifying to “professional experience” for teachers’ recruitment contests

The National education ministerial department has decided to drop the required labour experience certificate from the files to be submitted by teachers vying for recruitment contests underway in various educational centers across the national territory.

Although the competition will be conducted on the basis of the testimony, this certificate has been scrapped from the files but this very document will be required to be produced only in the case of success in the recruitment contest by each candidate.

Well-informed sources told Echorouk that the successful candidates in the contest are required to complete their files by putting forward the following documents including a copy of the certificate of national service exemption, a copy of the certificate of judicial record, medical testimonies testifying to their good health and two photographs, without any reference to a certificate of work.

However, the same sources suggested that the Labor certification confirming the applicant’s professional experience is required only in case of success in the contest

According to the same sources, the Ministry did not explicitly refer to this certificate, but in the third paragraph of the same clause of the relevant program, the applicant is required all the same to produce the labor certification attesting to his or her professional experience, the duration of the work under the contracts.

Meanwhile, the Minister of National Education, Nouria Benghabrit, called in Algiers for the creation of a regulatory body of the reports within the Education sector. While reiterating its appeal to the “emergency” to gather around an educational pact for the purpose to preserve the school and the interest of students and put them above any consideration, Ms. Benghabrit urged for a reflection on the creation of “a regulatory body”.

The Minister of Education, who was a guest of a local daily newspaper, found that “to achieve the qualitative leap expected, commitment, the will exists also, (…”) but it remains to bring energy and work in the same direction”.

Taking stock of the consultations undertaken by the education sector with the social partners, the Minister indicated that so far, she has had 45 meetings whose 37 with the unions, the other eight were organized with representatives of parents of students. While reaffirming her “commitment” and “willingness” to search for solutions to the pending problems, she invited partners to demonstrate “patience”, because the resolution of certain issues requires, she said, “time and a commitment that sometimes exceed (her) prerogatives”.

Referring to the strike of stewards which the rate, according to the Minister, “did not exceed 26% of the total number”, it expressed its “astonishment” at seeing a category (of the staff) Decides to an indefinite strike “without that this little person”.

Ms. Benghabrit who recalled her commitments with the unions, said that “34 of the 36 claims” raised by the unions in the sector have already been “implemented”. The Minister further strongly castigated what she called the “blackmail” of some unions that want everything to be settled “immediately”, as she put it.