Over the past twenty years, the share of science-track baccalaureate graduates in Tunisia has fallen threefold. That decline is now affecting the recruitment of maths teachers, and it raises questions about the country's ability to train tomorrow's engineers, doctors and researchers.
A Twenty-Year Decline: The Number That Stops You in Your Tracks
over twenty years, the share of science-track graduates has fallen threefold
It’s the kind of figure that stops any dinner-party conversation dead: over twenty years, the share of science-track baccalaureate graduates has fallen threefold. It’s a quiet collapse of a pathway that once shaped tomorrow’s engineers, doctors and researchers.
A decline of this scale is never down to a single isolated factor: it tells the story of a deep shift in how an entire generation chooses its path.
Who’s Sounding the Alarm, and About What?
Beyond the vacant posts, a bigger question has entered the debate: behind the difficulty of recruiting teachers lies Tunisia's ability to renew its own future. It is about the transmission of knowledge.
When maths posts become harder to fill, a whole link in the educational chain weakens. At stake is how the country prepares future generations to take over.
What This Number Says About Tomorrow
Over twenty years, the share of baccalaureate students heading into maths has fallen threefold. That figure is a preview of tomorrow's talent pool: the one that will feed teaching, research and technical professions.
Behind the resulting shortage of teachers lies a bigger question: the country’s ability to renew its own ranks (teachers, researchers, engineers). If nothing changes, this decline could well be passed on to the next generation, for lack of anyone left to teach it.
This shift reflects the place our society gives, from school onward, to the desire to count and to understand. None of this has to be accepted as inevitable, but time is short, because a scientific calling takes years to cultivate before it bears fruit. Families, teachers and careers advisers all have a part to play, otherwise the shortage of maths teachers, already a real concern, will only get worse.
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