Only technical problems hinder generalization of Berber teaching, institute chairman
Morocco, Education, 3/11/2005

Only technical difficulties are hindering the Berber language teaching in all Moroccan schools, said chairman of the Royal Institute for the Amazigh culture, Ahmed Boukous, brushing aside allegation on poor will from the education department.

Boukous stressed in an interview published Thursday by "Liberation" daily that only technical problems related to school manuals and the training teachers and inspectors, dismissing allegations that the national education department is showing poor will.

He explained that poor coordination with the company in charge of printing the material and with various regional academies are behind the problems encountered in the two last years.

After recalling the convention signed by the institute and the communication ministry, he insisted that the Institute is granting utmost importance to the audio-visual sector which, he contended, reaches a large portion of the population and allows to bring awareness to the Amazigh culture.

The media should allocate a decent place to the Amazigh language, we will no longer accept folklore broadcasts, he went on.

The Amazigh language is presently taught in 350 schools at a pace of three hours per week by 800 teachers to some 25,000 children, said Boukous who argued that cultural rights claims are a global phenomenon resulting from the tide of uniform, single and standardizing model.

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