Butaflika: legislation to end state monopoly on education

The Algerian President Abdul Aziz Butaflika announced on Monday that legislation will be approved to end the country s monopoly on the higher education sector. But he did not green light the foundation of private universities.

Official media quoted Butaflika as saying that "the development of higher education and scientific research is now registered in the top of national priorities and need the mobilization of all necessary potentials in an organized framework and to invest it in the service of objectives set in this regard."

He added in a speech in Bumerdas province to the east of the capital on the occasion of the new academic year "in this context the private sector finds its due place within the higher education process." He added "to attain this objective we have determined to amend the legal article pertinent to organizing all processes of higher education."