About half a million students take Amazigh language courses annually, according to the Minister of National Education, who stressed the need to double the number of teachers to properly address the teaching of this language.
The Ministry of National Education has announced that the national unified baccalaureate exam for the 2020-2021 school year will be held from June 8 to 12. The same press release states that the regional unified exam (1st year baccalaureate) will take place from May 27 to June 1.
The Moroccan Ministry of National Education informed the directors of the regional academies on Wednesday of the different schedules applicable, during the month of Ramadan, in primary, middle and vocational secondary schools.
The Ministry of National Education denied, on Saturday, the information relating to the suspension of classes scheduled for March 16, 2021 and until further notice.
According to statistics made public by the Ministry of National Education, at least 161,837 middle school students left the education system during the 2020-2021 school year, and the situation is the same every year. To eradicate the phenomenon, the Minister of Education has decided to prosecute the parents and guardians of these students.
Meeting this Thursday, March 4, 2021 by videoconference under the chairmanship of the Head of Government, Saâd Eddine El Othmani, the Government Council again postponed the examination of the draft law on the legalization of cannabis, announced the Minister of National Education, government spokesperson, Saaid Amzazi.
The Moroccan government has just granted the Moroccan Grouping of Printing Trades the gift of national preference. This decision comes in response to the multiple demands of the players in this sector who have always denounced the awarding of the market for the printing of hundreds of millions of school textbooks and notebooks to foreign countries.
School dropout in Morocco is becoming increasingly worrying. In total, more than 161,000 students dropped out of the middle school cycle during the 2020-2021 school year, according to statistics from the Ministry of National Education.
The Minister of National Education and Vocational Training, Saaïd Amzazi , had a telephone conversation on Wednesday evening with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Galant. The two officials agreed to set up exchange programs for students from both countries.
The National Federation of Parents’ Associations of Morocco (FNAPEM) welcomes the efforts of the Ministry of National Education to resume classes after confinement. However, it deplores the quality of alternating education.
For the past few days, rumors have been circulating about a decision made by the Moroccan Ministry of Education to suspend classes as of this February 1st. Serious fabrications on which the ministry has provided a formal denial, through a press release.
A new Amazigh language curriculum project for the primary education cycle has just been developed by the Ministry of National Education. It should allow the development of new textbooks.