Question 12556 — French people abroad

Summary

Mr. Karim Ben Cheikh draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the worrying situation in which the students and families of the French education network in Algeria find themselves. This network made up of 22 private establishments, approved by derogation by the Agency for French Education Abroad (AEFE) for several years, is put in difficulty by the desire of the Algerian authorities to no longer allow the affiliation of educational establishments to a label submitted to a foreign institution. Certain establishments were administratively closed by the Algerian Ministry of Education, upon report of its inspection, on the basis of Order No. 05-07 dated August 23, 2005 governing teaching in private educational establishments. Hundreds of students of French nationality now find themselves without a solution schooling in a French education program. Access to the distance learning program through the National Center for Distance Education (CNED) in its regulated format, allowing access to a course leading to the validation of the baccalaureate, is reserved for students who studied the previous year in a class approved by the AEFE. Consequently, French families in Algeria meet for most of them deprived of the possibility of allowing their children to study in a program allowing them direct access to the French higher education system. The deputy recalls that following the state visit of the President of the Republic, in August 2022, to Algeria, then the trip of the delegation of the high-level meeting led by the Prime Minister in September 2022, the Government had announced the prospect of enhancing the Franco-Algerian relationship to the level of a strategic partnership. In this regard, the MP asks the Minister what are the achievements of this intergovernmental dialogue for the French people of Algeria and in particular for the development of a French education system in this country which is sized to meet the needs expressed by the French and Francophile community. from Algeria. Apart from the Alexandre Dumas international high school located in Algiers and whose annexes have opened in Annaba and Oran, he notes that there is, to his knowledge, no other directly managed establishment capable of welcoming French students with the authorization and guarantee of the Algerian State. The MP therefore asks what actions have been taken by the Government to find a solution for schooling in a French education program for young French people in Algeria, whether in terms of opening access to the regulated CNED program, including for new students, or through the creation or extension of a network of French establishments authorized by the Algerian authorities. The MP recalls that, with regard to French students residing in France who are subject to compulsory education, the CNED is the institution which provides an educational service to their destination and is concerned that French students cannot currently access French education, including from the regulated CNED course. He wants to know his position on the subject.

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