At the ministry of higher education and scientific research, the minister of higher education and scientific research Mr. Kamel Baddari and the minister of digitization and statistics, Mrs. Meriem Ben Miloud, supervised the signing ceremony of a convention between both ministries relating to the fields of formation, technological development, scientific research and research results valorization.
In a press statement, minister Baddari affirmed that the convention is with regard to two fundamental parts; the first one is about formation in statistics and digitization, while the second part is about accompanying the ministry of digitization and statistics in achieving its strategies regarding digitalization of various ministerial sectors.
Furthermore, this convention will place human potential at the disposal of the ministry of digitization and statistics to provide solutions for the challenges facing this strategy. Mr. Baddari noted that the sector of higher education and scientific research had completed the process of digitalizing all the activities relating to governance, formation, and higher education and scientific research thanks to an integrated-information system in various digital platforms.The minister also added that, the formation system of the higher education ,encompasses files of one million and 700.000 students, and 64000 instructors, in addition to more than 100.000 employees and workers in different activities, and this would renderthe sector of higher education and scientific research an electronic sectorpar excellence.
Minister Ben Miloud, for her part, affirmed that this convention aims at setting frameworks for cooperation between both sectors in the fields of formation and technological development, in order to strengthen human resources, which is the fundamental basis for the development of digital infrastructures, in addition to enhancing university role in setting up a national system for statistics.