Education in Algeria

[3] Before the French conquest of Algiers in 1830, religious lands called hubus paid for Muslim teachers.

[4] When the French colonized Algeria, they seized the hubus, which ended traditional education funding.

[4] After the war for independence, Algeria introduced several policies to reform and strengthen the educational structure.

Berber teaching is allowed in Algerian schools to remove the complaints of Arabization and need for non-Algerian teachers.

[2] In 1994, Kabyle pupils and students boycotted Algerian schools for a year, demanding the officialization of Berber, leading to the symbolic creation of the Haut Commissariat à l'Amazighité (HCA) in 1995.

[14][15] In 2018, the government announced that optional classes of tamazight will be offered in all public primary and secondary schools in the future.

[20] However, a month before independence, Algerian revolutionary leaders declared that the future State would be committed to arabisation.

[21] Ahmed Ben Bella implemented linguistic arabisation laws in primary schools and required teaching in Arabic on all levels from 1963/1964.

[22] In November 2005, Parliament passed laws that banned private schools from teaching in any other language but Arabic.

[25] Since the Multilingual National Strategy for Literacy was put in place in 2008, over 3.6 million Algerians have been lifted out of illiteracy.