Appealed

The Algerian Minister of Education has appealed to students not to go to foreign universities but instead to study at their country's recently re-opened university. He also stated that the presence of the students among the Algerian population was indispensable and that any movement away would have to be regarded as flight from new responsibilities.

At the same time, new regulations were introduced giving equivalent value to diplomas in the subjects of medicine, dental surgery, pharmacy and midwifery. No student of these subjects in possession of a non-Algerian diploma awarded after November 15, 1962, will be allowed to work in his profession until he has received permission from the Minister of Health. This also applies to resident foreigners.