On Thursday 5^th December 2024, during a plenary session of The Council of Nation, dedicated to oral questions, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Mr. Kamel Baddari, explained in his reply that “the opening of the speciality of medicine in some university was carried out following their demands, those of the students’ parents and the parliamentary representatives of both chambers.”  Therefore, “a high-level joined ministerial committee has been set up, which includes executives from various sectors and relevant authorities.” and according to their reports submitted “21 annexes of the Faculties of Medicine have been created to ensure the training during the first three years of the preclinical course. They represent educational structures pedagogically and administratively attached to existing medical faculties.” 

In the same context, the Minister stated that “these annexes will be evaluated according to a participatory approach extended to all actors”, “taking into account the objectivity and the existence of adequate conditions to ensure the success of this effort.” 

With regard to the question of the unification of the names of certain specialities, and the review of the degrees previously awarded, and the coordination with the General Directorate of the Civil Service, the Minister explained that “the LMD educational system, which has been applied since 2004, under which numerous training courses have been accredited at bachelor’s and master’s level. These courses, although they have different tittles, are similar in terms of content and teaching programmes.” 

He added that his sector has been working « adequacy of licenses and harmonization of master’s degree », by « reviewing the titles of the branches and specialities, and unifying the names and the contents of the training courses offered in all the specialities in order to make the profile of graduates clearer and more visible.”

 The Minister revealed that these two operations had made it possible to reduce “the number of branches in licences from 227 to 83, i.e. 60%, and the number of specialties from 1962 to 177, i.e. 90%, after  matching,” as well as “the number of specialties for Master’s degree from 3 174 to 536, i.e. 83%,” while “the General Directorate of Civil Service has been informed of the updated nomenclature of training programs offered by higher education institutions, on the basic of which graduates of university institutions are recruited in various sectors.”