Morocco vows to generalize, promote quality education
Morocco, Education, 11/22/2002

The Moroccan government on Thursday vowed to enforce a new educational policy, based on generalizing and promoting a quality education.

Morocco's Primie Minister, Driss Jettou, who presented on Thursday the government program successively to the two chambers of the Moroccan parliament, said his team will base the reform of the country's educational system on the National Education and Training Charter.

The strategy, Jettou said, will rely on generalizing primary education, encouraging the two secondary education cycles in order to generalize it by 2008, enlarging the scope of vocational secondary education and reaching the target of 60 percent of pupils at the Baccalaureate by 2010.

Private education was granted a special interest in the program of the government, which seeks to make this sector contribute to schooling generalization.

The schooling of children with special needs appears as one of the major targets in the government program, which stressed the importance of integrating these children in the educational system.

Jettou equally noted that the government will build on efforts meant to teach Arabic language, Islamic religion and national values to the children of Moroccan nationals settled abroad.

In line with the principle of education for all, the Prime Minister said the government will concentrate efforts on promoting non-formal education programs for non-schooled children or dropouts, and intensifying the program of struggle against illiteracy.

In order to achieve quality education, the government program said it will reform and promote syllabi in terms of content, methodology and style, generalize the use of new information technologies in education and consolidate scientific and technical branches.

Touching on higher education, Jettou said the government will activate a reform of the sector in accordance with the National Education and Training Charter and adapting higher education to job market requirements. The government also undertakes to continue setting up new university structures likely to consolidate the pedagogical, administrative and financial independence of universities.

The government also said it will encourage scientific and technological research, while associating the private sector to this drive.

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