The minister of higher education and scientific research Mr. Kamel Baddari chaired on Thursday, October 12, 2023– at his ministry– the national symposium of universities.
Minister Baddari in his speech, affirmed that the symposium aims at assessing and defining the sector’s strategy by the end of 2029′, as he stressed the importance of making Algerian university–with all its majors–an innovative and creative institution contributing and working in line with the objectives of the New Algeria’. On the same occasion, Mr. Baddari highlighted the role of university institutions in omitting the previous policies, seeking to the economic and the social development to which we all aspire’.
Mr. Baddari, on the occasion, announced the official launch of an online platform called ‘My Bursary’, developed to enable students to request their university bursary online. He added that the Bursary payment is scheduled on the 18 thof every month. Moreover he noted that this procedure aims at’ facilitating such procedures through digitalizing communication between students and the administration, and create new governance’ aiming at the management of university services. Minister Baddari on the same context valuated ‘ the President of the Republic Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s gesture in regard of raising students’ bursary from 1300 Algerian Dinars, to 2000 A.D. monthly.
On the same occasion, 10 out of 57 university instructors were honourd for being the most influencing instructors. In addition to that, 23 universities were also honoured for being classified in the Times University ranking, which makes Algeria on the top ranking of the Maghrebi universities, and the second on the African scale–according to the ranking.