Lafarge and Algeria’s Oran university renew four-year partnership

The Algerian branch of French construction materials group 725 Lafarge and the Mohamed Boudiaf university of sciences and technology (USTO) in Oran, Algeria have renewed their four-year partnership. A professional masters’ degree specialising in material engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering and process engineering will be offered from September 2014, with a dozen students set to benefit from the course. Managing Director of Lafarge Algeria Luc Callebat said that the previous partnership had allowed the university to work more closely with companies.