Number of Moroccan high schools pupils up by 8.72%
Morocco, Education, 9/15/2003

The number of students enrolled in high schools this year is due to reach some 573,355, i.e. a 8.72% increase in comparison with the 2002-2003 school year.

According to a report of the education and youth ministry, the success rate at the Baccalaureate exam (final year of high school) reached 48.5% at the national level in 2002-2003.

Some 48% of new high school pupils were enrolled in literary branches while 52% opted for scientific and technical ones, the report said, adding that the number of classrooms will rise from 15,284 to 15,855 while the number of high schools will also rise from 625 to 645.

A total of 6,777 new students will receive scholarships, bringing the total number of scholarship recipients to 47,486 ("17%).

The report points to a lack of teachers reaching 370 of French teachers, 134 in history and geography and 115 in natural sciences, and an overstaffing in Arabic (644), physics and chemistry (531) and maths (489).

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