
France Leads OECD in Converting Foreign Students to Skilled Workers
Young Moroccans and other nationalities pursuing higher education in France quickly move from student status to worker status. They constitute a valuable pool of skilled labor.

Young Moroccans and other nationalities pursuing higher education in France quickly move from student status to worker status. They constitute a valuable pool of skilled labor.

A student was found dead by his relatives in his apartment near the university area of Tangier, Morocco. The police have opened an investigation to determine the causes and circumstances of the death.

A Moroccan student was not accepted into a Master’s program at the University of Montpellier. The administrative court of the city has ordered the institution to enroll the Moroccan and compensate her with 500 euros.

Morocco offers scholarships to Colombians who have brilliantly obtained their high school diploma in 2021. Candidates interested in this opportunity can respond to the call for applications published via ICETEX no later than September 19, 2022.

For the 2022-2023 academic year, the Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation (AMCI) offers scholarships to Pakistani students to pursue their studies in Moroccan public higher, technical and vocational education institutions.

A large number of Moroccan students have enrolled in pharmacy at the University of Salamanca, without understanding Spanish. Their goal is to have the necessary papers to obtain the visa.

The father of Sébastien Raoult, a French student arrested and then incarcerated in Morocco , because he is suspected by the FBI of belonging to a group of hackers and having hacked the data of American companies, pleads for the non-extradition of his son to the United States, where he faces 116 years in prison. The Moroccan justice system will have to make a decision in this regard in the very near future.

Sixteen Moroccan students will join the prestigious École Polytechnique in Paris this year, while 7 are on the waiting list, according to the French embassy in Morocco.

Accused of being the hacker who breached the data of hundreds of American companies, a French student wanted by Interpol, was arrested and then incarcerated in Morocco. The Moroccan justice is currently examining his extradition requested by the United States.

Not having received the autopsy report carried out in France so far, the family of Zakaria Mennouni, a 26-year-old student killed by the French police in Blois on April 22 and buried in Casablanca, is demanding justice and truth. His lawyer has filed a request with the Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal to have the young man’s body autopsied.

Moroccans remain the largest student community in France with more than 44,900 students, according to the latest figures published by the French Agency for the Promotion of Higher Education (Campus France).

The student who had impersonated a young woman in order to take the end-of-year exams in place of one of his friends now knows his fate. The court of first instance in Mohammedia has rendered its verdict a few days ago.