Teaching Informatics: Algeria Needs Sufficient Laboratories, Jobs in Schools
A recent procedural study carried out by the Algerian Syndicate of Education Workers on teaching informatics in educational institutions highlighted that the failure of the experiment is primarily due to the lack of receiving all pupils at their various levels in equal theoretical and applied academic levels, given that some have learned it and others were deprived of it, in addition to the problem of assigning the task of teaching to professors who are not qualified in this speciality.
Furthermore, the Algerian Syndicate of Education Workers called on officials of the national education sector to the importance of providing all conditions for the success of teaching informatics, the first of which is the construction and equipment of laboratories for automated media in all educational institutions, with the opening of sufficient financial positions for the specialists and their employment nationally to establish a solid base for teaching informatics, and put a studied curriculum throughout all years of pupils’ studies.
The National Secretary-General of the Algerian Syndicate of Education Workers, Mohamed Belamri, told Echorouk that “the issue of teaching informatics in educational institutions in general and exactly in the intermediate education phase, has never known stability. We find some academic institutions where this speciality is taught by some people who are not qualified. This is a great disaster, which prevents achieving the principle of equal opportunities among all learners who can’t obtain knowledge and gains at equal levels.
The syndicate’s official explained that “the demarcation of teaching informatics gives an added value to the educational system in light of the globalization and digitization of all public sectors uniformly and accelerate the process to reach the digital transformation. This requires that all employees be qualified at least with the general principles of automated media”.
In parallel with the approval of the Ministry of National Education to demarcate teaching informatics at the start of the school year 2024/2025, the National Secretary-General of the Syndicate proposed to officials the importance of ensuring that all conditions of the success of this module, the first of which is the construction of laboratories for automated media in all educational institutions and their equipment, along with caring for adequate financial positions for the specialists and employing them nationally, to achieve the coverage of all educational departments with the pedagogical framework, in addition to take decisions to exempt professors of physical and natural sciences permanently from teaching informatics.
