LGERIA had 1,400,000 pupils in 1964 as against 700,000 in 1961, the year before the country’s independence, Algerian Minister of National Education, Cherif Belkacem, told the French newspaper Le Monde recently. One hundred and ten thousand students were studying in secondary schools in 1964, as against 40,000 in 1961; and there were 8,000 students
in higher schools, as against 4,000 in
1961, he added.
He said that 12,000 probationary
teachers had been recruited who
would teach in primary school after
a short course of training. This was
a means to solve the shortage of
teachers.
The Minister disclosed that 35,000
students were being trained to be
teachers in the literacy campaign.