Algeria

Partners situated in Algeria

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Algeria in a nutshell

Algeria (Formal Arabic: الجزائر, al-Jazā’ir; Berber: Dzayer), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country located in North Africa. It is the largest country on the Mediterranean sea, the second largest on the African continent and the eleventh-largest country in the world in terms of land area.

It is bordered by Tunisia in the northeast, Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast, Mali and Mauritania in the southwest, a few kilometers of the Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara in the southwest, Morocco in the west and northwest, and the Mediterranean Sea in the north. I

Its size is almost 2,400,000 km2 with an estimated population near to 35,000,000.

The capital of Algeria is Algiers.

About a quarter of the population of the country lives off less than US$ 2 a day.

Algeria is a member of the United Nations, African Union, OPEC and the Arab League. It also contributed towards the creation of the Maghreb Union.

Algeria is considered by Berbers to be a part of the Berber World.

(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria)

Algeria education policy

Education is officially compulsory for children between the ages of 6 and 15. In the year 1997, there was an outstanding amount of teachers and students in primary schools.

Algeria education system

In Algeria there are 43 universities, 10 colleges, and 7 institutes for higher learning.

The Algerian school system is structured into Basic, General Secondary, and Technical Secondary levels:

Higher education

Universities in Algeria

(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Algeria)

Algeria has a developed educational system based on European methodologies with strong efficient research in mathematics and technology. The estimated number universities and colleges for 2005 was 130. The following are among the main universities:

1. Annaba University
2. Abou Bakr Belkaïd University
3. University of Algiers - founded 1909 - see http://www.univ-alger.dz/univ_ang/ (English site)
4. Badji Mokhtar University
5. University of Batna
6. Ecole Nationale d'Administration à Alger
7. Ecole Nationale Polytechnique - see http://www.enp.edu.dz/
8. University of Blida
9. Djillali Liabes University
10. Université de Bejaia
11. University of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediène
12. University of Mostaganem
13. University of Oran
14. Es-senia University
15. Mentouri University

Higher education reform

The Bologna Process

There are developments fostered by France in Algeria and the other Francophone countries of North Africa.

Algeria's HEIs in the information society

Information society strategy

Algeria is encouriging the use of ICT in education by preparing an ICT policy framework along with an implementation steratgey. The government has set up a special Committee to synergise different sectors in the area of ICT (infrastructure -research - software ..)

Virtual Campuses in HE

Interesting Virtual Campus Initiatives

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Interesting Programmes

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Re.ViCa Case-study

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Lessons learnt

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References

Wikipedia entries

• Algeria
• List of universities in Algeria
• Education in Algeria (rather brief)

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