The Future of Education

The Algerian university has seen a number of changes throughout recent years. Algeria’s community, university teachers and students feel the need to change and review the curriculum that does not meet their needs and that is far from the country’s reality. Since the implementation of the LMD (Licence-Master-Doctorat) system in 2004, designing a curriculum has become one of the most challenging tasks Algerian universities have ever been concerned with. The main reason behind that difficulty is the complexity of the curriculum constituent elements. Therefore, this paper comes to cast light on the main challenges the Algerian university faces in creating new curricula that meet the needs of different stakeholders. It also focuses on some of the major influences on curriculum design. It then presents examples of how these influential factors can affect the design of a curriculum and ends with a number of recommendations and suggestions for all those who are involved in this challenging task to conduct their curriculum development process in Algeria.