This document provides an overview of the education system in Algeria. It details the main levels of education including primary, lower secondary, upper secondary, vocational secondary, higher vocational, tertiary education and doctorate levels. The typical ages and duration of each level is outlined along with some of the qualifications obtained such as the Baccalaureate. Vocational pathways are also described in addition to the general academic routes.

1. Presented by : Dr Benghalem Boualem
University of Ain Temouchent, Algeria

2.  Arabic
 ‫الشعبية‬ ‫الديمقراطية‬ ‫الجزائرية‬ ‫الجمهورية‬
 Berber
 Tagduda Tadzayrit Tamagdayt Taɣerfant
 French
 République algérienne démocratique et populaire
 English
 People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria.

5. Algeria (Arabic: ‫الجزائر‬ ,French: Algérie), Berber: Dzayer, ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ, officially:
the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria)
is a country in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast. Its capital and most populous city
is Algiers.
The country's name derives from the city of Algiers. The most common etymology links the
city name to al-Jazā'ir ( ‫الجزائر‬
, The Islands)
a truncated form of the city's older name »Jazā’ir Banī Mazghanna «
Islands of the Mazghanna Tribe employed by medieval geographers such as al-Idrisi.
Others trace it to Ldzayer, the Maghrebi Arabicand Berber for "Algeria" possibly related to
the Zirid Dynasty King Zirings.

6. THE TERRITORY OF
TODAY'S ALGERIA WAS THE
HOME OF MANY
ancient cultures and civilizations, including Aterian and Capsian cultures. Its area has
known many empires and dynasties, including ancient
Berber Numidians, Carthaginians,Romans, Vandals, Byzantines, Arab Umayyads, Fatimids,
Berber Almohads and later Turkish Ottomans.

7. ALGERIA IS A SEMI
PRESIDENTIAL
REPUBLIC CONSISTING OF
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With a population exceeding 44,18 million(2021), it is the 34th most populated country
on Earth.
Its economy is oil based and Sonatrach, the national oil company, is the largest company
in Africa. Algeria has the second largest army in Africa, after Egypt, and
has Russia and China as strategic allies, and arms furnisher.

8. WITH A TOTAL AREA OF
2,381,741 SQUARE
KILOMETRES ALGERIA IS
the tenth-largest country in the world and the largest in Africa. The country is bordered
in the northeast by Tunisia, in the east by Libya, in the west by Morocco, in
the southwest by Western Sahara,Mauritania, and Mali, in the southeast by Niger, and
in the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Algeria is a member of the African Union, the Arab League, OPEC and the United
Nations, and is a founding member of the Arab Maghreb Union.

9. Is the apparent relationship between the increase in exploitation of natural
resources and a decline in the manufacturing sector. The mechanism is that an increase
in revenues from natural resources (or inflows of foreign aid) will make a given nation's
currency stronger compared to that of other nations (manifest in an exchange rate),
resulting in the nation's other exports becoming more expensive for other countries
to buy, making the manufacturing sector less competitive.
While it most often refers to natural resource discovery, it can also refer to "any
development that results in a large inflow of foreign currency, including a sharp surge in
natural resource prices, foreign assistance, and foreign direct investment".
the term was coined in 1977 by The Economist to describe the decline of the
manufacturing sector in the Netherlands after the discovery of a large natural
gasfield in 1959.

10. TOURISM
Le musée national du Bardo d’Alger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnARpQ_VREM
There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria]including Tipasa, a
Phoenician and later Roman town is located on the Mediterranean shore about 80 km
west of Algiers.
The modern town, founded in 1857, is remarkable chiefly for its sandy beach, and
ancient ruins http://www.africanworldheritagesites.org/cultural-places/frontiers-of-the-roman-
empire/tipaza.html
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11. LE DJÉMILA
The Beautiful one, is a mountain village in Algeria, near the northerncoasteast of
Algiers, wheresome of the best preservedBerbero-Roman ruins in NorthAfrica are found.
It issituated in the regionbordering the Constantinois and Petite Kabylie (Basse
Kabylie). In 1982, Djémilabecame a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its unique
adaptation of Roman architecture to a mountainenvironment. Significant buildings in
Djémilainclude a theatre, two fora, temples, basilicas, arches, streets, and houses. The
exceptionallywellpreservedruinssurround the forum of the Harsh, a large paved square
with an entry marked by a majestic arch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU_7VBtasVM&ab_channel=UNESCO

12. TIMGAD
Timgad (calledThamugas or Tamugadi in oldBerber) was a Roman colonial town in the
Aurès Mountains of Algeria, founded by the Emperor Trajan around AD 100. Located in
modern-dayAlgeria, about 35 km east of the town of Batna, the ruins are noteworthy for
representing one of the best extantexamples of the grid plan as used in Roman city
planning.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sleKFfvj9I4&ab_channel=UNESCO

13. M’ZAB VALLEY
a lime stone valley containing a large urbanized oasis; The M'zab or Mzab, is a region of
the northern Sahara, in the Ghardaïa wilaya, an administrative division similar to a
province, of Algeria. It islocated 600 km (370 mi) south of Algiers and there are
approximately 360,000 inhabitants .
• The Mozabites ("At Mzab") are a branch of a large Berber tribe, wholived in large
areas of middle southern Algeria. ManyTifinaghletters and symbols are engraved
around the Mzab Valley.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa-NrgpHogk&ab_channel=UNESCO

14. CASBAH
Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel. The Kasbah of Algiers is an outstanding
example of a historic Maghreb city having had extensive influence on town-planning in
the western part of the Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa.
• Indeed, located on the Mediterranean coast, the site was inhabited at least from the
6th century BC when a Phoenician trading post was established there. The term
Kasbah, that originally designated the highest point of the medina during the Ziridera,
today applies to the ensemble of the oldtown of El Djazair, within the boundaries
marked by the ramparts and built at the end of the 16th century, dating back to the
Ottoman period.
• In this living environment where nearly 50,000 people reside, very interesting
traditional houses, palaces, hammams, mosques and various souks are still conserved,
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ9qPjBoKQc&ab_channel=AlMayadeenEnglish

15. TASSILI N'AJJER
The only natural World Heritage Sites is the Tassili n'Ajjer, a mountain range. •
Tassili n'Ajjer meaning "Plateau of the Rivers"; is a mountain range in the Algerian
section of the Sahara Desert. It is a vast plateau in south-east Algeria at the borders of
Libya and Niger, covering an area of 72,000 km2. With 8 million square kilometers, this
desert is a really a fascination for the tourists .
The rocky walls everything an enormous painting group improbable (more than 5,000)
done on the stone. there were representations of giraffes, gigantic elephants with the
tube in stop, hipopótamos, animals and humanoides figures.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEtnJHeocKg&ab_channel=UNESCO

17. ALGERIAN MUSIC
• Music in Algeria in genera loffers a rich diversity of genre, popular music (Shaabi),
Arabo-Andalusian music (Malouf San'aa, Gharnati, etc. ..) music classical Arabic,
Bedouin, Berber music (Kabyle, Shawi, Tuareg, Etc. ..), Rai ...
• Sha-biiis, in North African countries, folk music; in Algeria, however, it refers to a
style of recent urban popular music, of which the best known performer was El Hajj
Muhammad El Anka considered like the Grand Master of Andalusian classical music.
True styles of folk music include hofii, a form of female vocal music, and zindalii, from
Constantine.
Rai is well known in the western of Algeria
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEpYqJyEf7I&ab_channel=UNESCO
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6UkXE2SV90&ab_channel=Mini-
PoussProduction

18.  Algerian cuisine offers a variety of dishes depending on the region and the season, but
vegetables and cereals remain at its core.

19. Couscous is arguably the most famous
Algerian dish. It’s commonly eaten on
Fridays, due to an old tradition of giving
couscous to the country’s poorest on Fridays
many centuries ago.
Couscous is made from semolina that has
been steamed for approximately 10 minutes.
It is served with a stew of meat and various
vegetables like carrots, potatoes, and
zucchini.
Different ingredients get added depending
on the region. For example, in the Kabyle
region, they add black-eyed peas to add more
texture and flavor.
Couscous can be eaten in different ways. You
can top it with the previously mentioned
stew, or add steamed beans and peas and eat
it with Iben, a type of buttermilk.

20. There are a variety of soups and
broths in Algeria, but the Harira is
undoubtedly one of the country’s
most well-known.
Harira is very common in West
Algeria. Its recipe may change
from region to region, but it always
remains rich and flavorsome.
Harira is commonly made from
pureed tomatoes, meat, and
various vegetables like zucchini,
carrots, potatoes, and onion.
Generous helpings of herbs, like
ginger and coriander, help elevate
the taste of this delicious soup.
Harira is enjoyed with a few slices
of bread or Kessra. It is an
important Algerian food, and it
comes in many variations.
.
For more information about different algerian cuisines,
visit this website :
https://nomadparadise.com/algerian-food/

21. Education School/Level Grades Age Years Notes
Primary Primary Education 1–5 6–10 5
Primary education is free and compulsory for
all children between the ages of 6 and 10.
Enseignement primaire / ‫االبتدائي‬ ‫التعليم‬
middle
Lower middle
Education
6–9 11–15 4
Brevet d'Enseignement Moyen / ‫التعليم‬ ‫شهادة‬
‫المتوسط‬
Secondary
Upper Secondary
Education
10–12 16–18 3
Baccalauréat de l’Enseignement Secondaire /
‫الثانوي‬ ‫التعليم‬ ‫بكالوريا‬
Vocational
Vocational
Secondary
Education
10–12 16–18 3
Certificat d'Aptitude Professionnelle - CAP /
‫المهنية‬ ‫الكفاءة‬ ‫شهادة‬ Certificat de Maîtrise
Professionnelle - CMP / ‫المهني‬ ‫التحكم‬ ‫شهادة‬ Diplôme
d'Enseignement Professionnel du 1er Degré -
DEP 1 / ‫األولى‬ ‫الدرجة‬ ‫من‬ ‫المهني‬ ‫التعليم‬ ‫شهادة‬ (2008-2017)
Brevet d’Enseignement Professionnel - BEP /
‫المهني‬ ‫التعليم‬ ‫شهادة‬ (since 2017) Brevet de
Technicien - BT / ‫تقني‬ ‫شهادة‬ Diplôme
d'Enseignement Professionnel du 2ème Degré
- DEP 2 / ‫الثانية‬ ‫الدرجة‬ ‫من‬ ‫المهني‬ ‫التعليم‬ ‫شهادة‬ (2008-
2017) Baccalauréat de Technicien / ‫التعليم‬ ‫بكالوريا‬
‫الثانوي‬
(
‫التكنولوجي‬
)
Vocational
Higher Vocational
Education
2–3
Brevet d’Enseignement Professionnel
Supérieur- BEPS / ‫العليا‬ ‫المهني‬ ‫التعليم‬ ‫شهادة‬ Brevet de
Technicien Supérieur - BTS / ‫سامي‬ ‫تقني‬ ‫شهادة‬
Tertiary Licence 3–5 Licence / ‫ليسانس‬
Tertiary Master 2 Diplôme du Master/Magister / ‫الماستر‬ ‫شهادة‬
Tertiary Doctorate 3
Doctorat / ‫الدكتوراه‬ ‫شهادة‬ (Doctorate)/Doctorat
d’État / ‫دولة‬ ‫الدكتوراه‬ ‫شهادة‬
:
3 or more years