Education Minister, Nouria Bengherbrit, said Tuesday in Algiers, that the success rate for girls in the 2017 baccalaureate exam reached 65%, considering these results as “acceptable and encouraging.”
In a statement to the press after a meeting with the Mauritanian Minister of Culture, Ms Benghebrit said that the mathematics branch ranked first with a success rate of 68.70%, expressing that the scientific branch attracts more and more pupils “.
The Minister of Education called for “encouraging pupils to choose this specialty”, recalling in this context the performances of Algerians who have won several prizes in mathematics competitions, in particular at the International Olympiads in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and to a meeting of the Mediterranean countries, devoted to the young mathematics pupils.
Regarding the ongoing preparations for the next school year, she recalled establishment of the national education and evaluation plan and the teacher’s guide, which will be made available to teachers in application.
Regarding the improvement of the “form and content” of textbooks, the Minister, who announced the organization of a schoolbook fair in September, said improvements would be made to the new textbooks Those in the 3rd and 4th years of primary education and the second and third years of medium-term education, calling on publishers to participate in the elaboration of these books.
The overall success rate at baccalaureate session 2017 reached 56.07%, up from 2016 when it was 49.79%.
Source: APS
