The policy governing Algerian universities must undoubtedly be reviewed. More and more, these are factories producing future unemployed people. In addition to graduates of the first two cycles, doctors, too, are recording unemployment rates which are worrying, to say the least.
Unemployment is a scourge that Algeria is struggling to get rid of. Hundreds of thousands of young Algerians, trained by the country’s universities, find themselves once graduated, delivered to dangerous idleness. If this is unacceptable for holders of Masters and Bachelors, it is even more so for PhDs.
More than 20,000 unemployed doctors
The president of the National Council of Higher Education Teachers (CNES), Dr. Abdelhafid Milat, revealed, via his Tweeter page, the seriousness of the situation of doctors in Algeria. According to Bilat, the country currently has more than 22,000 unemployed doctors. A figure which is official, according to the president of CNES, which means that the reality on the ground is even more catastrophic.
For Milat, the situation is unlikely to improve over time, given that Algerian universities now have more than 64,000 doctoral students who, according to the president of CNES, are “future unemployed”. Abdelhafid Milat indicates that “the Algerian university needs a new road map”.
“We need to move away from pathos and populist solutions. We have to think for the sake of the university and the country above all else,” he concludes. It should be remembered, in the same context, that nearly 1,500 Algerians were able to disembark illegally in Spain in just 72 hours.
