While technological skills are increasingly in demand in the labor market, Algeria intends to train more qualified graduates in the field. The country has implemented a reform aimed at better structuring training programs.
Algerian Prime Minister Aïmene Benabderrahmane decreed the dissolution of the National School of Technology and the School of Applied Sciences.
“The National Higher School of Technology created by Executive Decree No. 09-20 of 23 Moharram 1430 corresponding to January 20, 2009, and the Higher School of Applied Sciences created by Executive Decree No. 17-303 of 2 Safar 1439 corresponding on October 22, 2017, referred to above are dissolved”, informs a decree published in the Official Journal of November 24, 2022.
According to the same source, “The property, rights, obligations, personnel, and means of all kinds, held by the dissolved establishments, are transferred to the National School of Advanced Technologies”. The latter has been created by a decree produced under the same circumstances as the first.
If the new school combines the components of the two dissolved schools, in substance, it brings reform in the quality of academic programs. Which programs, revised, will be made more current in order to train graduates better able to integrate into the job market where technological skills are increasingly in demand.
Thus, the National School of Advanced Technologies has been tasked with ensuring the training of students in the various specialties of advanced technologies, in particular in industrial engineering, transport engineering, automatic control, electronics, telecommunications, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and engineering. processes.
In these same areas, it will also implement scientific research and technological development programs.
