Scientific Research in Algeria Institutionalisation versus Professionalisation

In the first twenty years after independence, scientific research in Algeria was largely displaced in favour of teaching and training. From the beginning, there arose a conflict between scientific research and political independence that was tied to the tensions generated by two sets of forces: professionalisation autonomy on the one hand, and institutionalisation control on the other. The process of professionalisation leads to greater independence for researchers, which comes into conflict with the exercise of government control over the process of institutionalisation. It drifted down to an incessant political and administrative impediment to the aspirations of scientific researchers for professional autonomy. This situation influenced the conditions under which the scientific community emerges and consolidates itself in its relationship with the state in Algeria. The relationship between the scientific and political worlds comprises the nolitical backdrop of the problems that this paper will attempt to unfold.