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Tunisia: Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Calls for Boosting Partnership Between Universities and Economic Enterprizes
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Tunisia Online (Tunis)
25 March 2008
Posted to the web 28 March 2008
Tunis
Efforts aiming at fine tuning Tunisia's higher education reform, are well underway as demonstrated by the latest two- day seminar , chaired by Mr Lazhar Bououni, Tunisia's Minister of Higher Education.
The seminar was held at Gammarth from March 24 to 25, 2008, under the theme: "The construction of professional Bachelor degrees in Tunisia ".
The seminar, which is part of the promotion of quality, employability and training of university diploma holders, was attended by a number of Tunisian and European academic experts, as well as by representatives of the Tunisian Union of Industries, commerce and handicrafts ( UTICA ).
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In his opening address to the seminar, Mr Bououni, stressed that the new system gradually put in place in Tunisia's universities, dubbed LMD (Licence, Mastere, Doctorat ) or Bachelors, Masters, and PH.d, was essentially aimed at introducing professionalism in the student's curriculum, so that the diploma no longer assesses only knowledge but also skills and practical competences and know-how, with a view to a greater employability of the university diploma holder. He also called for the boosting of partnership between universities and economic operators.
He also highlighted the importance of the "Tempus Tulip" project set up with the help of the European Union, which he said was a model to follow in terms of cooperation between Tunisian and European universities.
The project which concerns essentially professional Bachelors' degrees, has so far OK'd some 10 professional Bachelors degrees out of an initial submission of 42 proposals, including some in olive oil production, the making of optical glasses and insurances. Other Bachelors include quality and risk management, and conception and multimedia.
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