Algeria Education
Training The education system in Algeria is based on French, and prior to release all formal education was conducted in the French language. Many older people read French but not Arabic. Since the release, extensive Arabization campaigns have been carried out, i.e. through the introduction of an Arabic-language elementary school and the abolition of the private (often Catholic) schools in the 1970s and 1980s. However, there have been strong student protests that the Arabization program has gone too slowly. So,…