Algerian education - less French (again)

El Khabar, El Watan Liberte: Minister of Education confirms that private schools' main language of instruction has to be Arabic, and that they cannot set up CNED courses; this is primarily directed against French-medium schools, popular with the elite.

On a different note, French teaching will once again start at 3rd grade, after a brief period of attempting to start it in 2nd grade - various reasons were advanced, from the difficulty of mastering two unfamiliar written languages at once to Belkhadem's supposed support for Arabization.