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  • African University Team Unveils Smart, Sustainable Home Design for Solar Decathlon 2019
    30 July 2019, by Bladi.net

    Al Akhawayn University (AUI) is now ready to present its design of the "smart and autonomous" dwelling. This work, whose realization has been a great success, will be in competition at the "Solar decathlon Africa" 2019, in September, in Benguerir.
    The result of a partnership between several ministries, including the Moroccan supervisory ministry and the US Department, as well as its partner, the Moroccan Institute for Solar Energy and New Energies Research (Iresen), this initiative (…)

  • Moroccan University Al Akhawayn Tops Maghreb in Global QS Ranking
    5 November 2019, by Bladi.net

    The QS Ranking has just unveiled its ranking of the best universities in the world. As last year, it is a Moroccan university that takes the lead in the Maghreb.
    This year, Al Akhawayn has again broken the record by taking the lead, ahead of the Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech, the Mohammed V University of Rabat and the Abdelmalek Essaâdi University of Tangier-Tetouan, at the national level.
    According to Le matin, the Moroccan university has achieved a feat by positioning itself in (…)

  • Moroccan Universities Honor 52 Yemeni Doctoral Graduates Amid Pandemic
    1 September 2020, by Jérôme

    52 Yemeni students who obtained their doctorate in a dozen Moroccan universities, in several specialties, for the 2019-2020 academic year were honored on Saturday, August 29, 2020. It was during a remote ceremony in front of an audience of academic and diplomatic personalities.
    Mr. Driss Ouaouicha, Minister Delegate in charge of Higher Education and Scientific Research, congratulated the young doctors for their efforts, despite the current epidemiological situation, adding that they will (…)

  • Moroccan Universities Lag Behind in Africa’s Top 100 Rankings, Study Finds
    3 October 2020, by Jérôme

    Moroccan higher education is doing poorly. This is what the specialized directory Unirank reveals, which ranks Moroccan universities among the least brilliant on the continent, despite the reforms that are being carried out there and which rather have the appearance of a scattering.
    According to the specialized directory Unirank, Morocco was only able to place 4 of its campuses in the Top-100 of the best universities in Africa. These are the University of Cadi Ayyad (44th), the (…)

  • Morocco Sees 70% Drop in Foreign Student Enrollments Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
    1 January 2021, by Jérôme

    Due to the health crisis related to the coronavirus and the exceptional health conditions, several countries have decided to suspend part of their scholarship and student exchange programs. Thus, in Morocco, the Department of Higher Education foresees a sharp drop in the number of new foreign students.
    With the digitalization and simplification of procedures, in collaboration with the universities and the Moroccan Agency for International Cooperation (AMCI), the department had managed to (…)

  • Moroccan University Tops National Rankings in QS Arab Region Report
    1 August 2021, by Jérôme

    The Cadi Ayyad University (UCA) of Marrakech ranked first in Morocco in the latest ranking published by QS Arab Region University Rankings 2021.
    This national and regional leadership position of UCA is the result of scientific research, one of the pillars of its innovative teaching model, according to a statement from the University, specifying that UCA of Marrakech had already occupied the first position at the national level and the 2nd at the African level in the Times Higher Education (…)

  • Former Yale Dean Appointed Vice President at Morocco’s Al Akhawayn University
    9 August 2021, by Armel

    Dr. Christopher S. Taylor, former dean of Yale University, has just been appointed Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI), succeeding Dr. Nizar Messari in the position for ten years.
    Holder of a Bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, a Master’s and a Doctorate from Princeton University, Dr. Taylor has a rich academic background and long experience in American universities with models similar to that of Al Akhawayn, the University (…)

  • Moroccan University Faces Backlash Over Students’ Israel Trip Amid Gaza Conflict
    18 July 2024, by Prince

    Students from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane have launched a petition to demand the banning of the return of students who recently traveled to Tel Aviv with a delegation of pro-Israelis to participate in an activity.
    The authors of the petition on the change.org platform condemned this trip of the students to Israel, in the midst of the conflict in Gaza, considering it as the expression of a "position in flagrant contradiction with the ethics and values advocated by Al Akhawayn (…)