According to Ali Boukaroura, the Algerian Cnes (the National Council for High-Education Teachers) coordinator, the measures taken recently by the Ministry for High Education and Scientific Research in order to improve the appalling situation of Algerian universities are far from being sufficient. After six years of terrorism, in which teachers were threatened and also murdered, universities are now seriously understaffed and lack means, Boukaroura added, According to Liberate Algeria.
Due to this, the universities can not cope with the ever growing number of students. These problems, according to Boukaroura, cannot be swept under the carpet with general administrative solutions. Dramatic changes and more funding are urgently needed, he stressed.
