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The minister announces exam’s allocations increase

Explaining why French school is not to be closed
Monday May 15 2006.

The minister of Education declared an increase in marking exams lecturers’ allocation and the assistant employees that supervise different inter-periods school exams.

These increases are ranging from 50 % to 100 %, as a move to avoid controversies like the ones occurred last year.

In another context, the minister of Education renewed his pressing that schooled pupils in private schools, whose number reached 27000 pupils, will be dealt with like their counterparts enrolled in public schools, and explained that the cause behind the non closure of the French school that stood in sharp contrast with the ministry decision towards the Saudi school, is that the opening of the French school was, in the first place, in accordance with an agreement signed between the Algerian and the French foreign ministries, that stipulates the right to open a French high school in Algeria and an Algerian school in France, whereas the opening of the Saudi school was as based on an agreement between the two countries’ officials, pressing that that negotiations between the ministry and the responsible of the Egyptian school are still underway and the decision is to be taken in one month time.

The minister promised in a press conference, that was organised yesterday, at the national office of exams and tests in the capital, that the next exams will be held in the most appropriate conditions, especially that “it’s been agreed, in the previous government meeting, on the sum of 150 billions centimes as a budget to monitor these exams, plus 40 billions centimes to be used as allocations and compensations, as a financial umbrella to the monitoring of this operation that was given all material, financial, human capabilities, the thing that led the ministry to increase the allocations that lecturers and administration staffs will receive for exams’ days and the marking process.

In this context, the number of candidates for all three exams will reach this year 1 500 000 pupils, amongst them 560 000 candidates for baccalaureate alone. The number of candidates for the elementary exams is more than 259 000 and 783 000 candidates for the certificate of the end of the primary school.

The minister added that 400 000 lecturers and administration staff will be mobilised during the whole period of exams, with the enhancement of security measures during this period.

B. Mustapha — El-Khabar

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