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Mauritania approves 360 education recruitments and promotions

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Mauritania’s minister of national education announced the approval of internal examinations providing for the recruitment of 30 basic education inspectors. The examinations also include the promotion of 30 inspectors, 200 teaching officers and 100 lower-secondary teachers, according to Kassataya.

Mauritania’s minister of national education has approved 360 recruitments and promotions in education, she announced, according to Kassataya. The measure includes the recruitment of 30 basic education inspectors and the promotion of 30 other inspectors.

The internal examinations also provide for the promotion of 200 teaching officers and 100 lower-secondary teachers. These decisions concern staff at different levels of public education.

The announcement comes after information was published on 21 October about Minister Houda Babah’s plan to prepare Mauritanian schools for artificial intelligence as part of changes to the education system.

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