Bribery: Investigation on the involvement of a regional Director of Education

After a long career in the Ministry of Education’s administrative departments and nearly one year after he took his mandate as the Regional Director of Education of the Ben Arous Governorate, Mr. Bachir Karim have been dismissed.
During an interview with Kalima, a union representative claimed that the Ministry's decision came in the framework of investigations concerning bribery in relation with this Regional Director. The same source noted that Mr. Karim returned to Msaken (Sousse) his hometown, pending the completion of the administrative investigations. The man had assumed the position of responsible for the recruiting at the Ministry of Education before being appointed at the head of the provincial Department of Education of Manouba in 2003, then other positions at the same Ministry. The sources expect that Mr. Karim’s disciplinary case relates essentially to CAPES, a competitive examination for teachers