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• Moroccan Teacher Fatally Attacked by Student with Axe, Sparking Education Sector Outrage
  15 April, by Sylvanus

  In Morocco, the National Federation of Education (FNE, affiliated with the Moroccan Labor Union) calls for strong and immediate mobilization after the violent assault of a teacher by a student that led to her death.
  March 28 was a nightmarish day for Hajar E., a French language teacher at the Office of Vocational Training and Work Promotion (OFPPT). Armed with a "chakour", a rudimentary axe, a 21-year-old student, unhappy with a disciplinary remark against him, violently attacked the (…)

• Congolese Students Face Hardship in Morocco as Government Fails to Pay Tuition
  27 July 2019, by Bladi.net

  Misery. This is how one can describe the life led by Congolese students in the kingdom. Like students of other nationalities, they are sent to study and complete their training. Their state, guarantor of this training, seems no longer willing to honor its commitment to the training institutions of these young people. Dragging unpaid tuition fees, these students, who arrived between 2014 and 2017 at the Private University of Marrakech, were nevertheless directed by the Directorate of (…)

• Moroccan Rights Commission Intervenes in Jerada Girl’s School Enrollment Case
  28 September 2020, by Jérôme

  Following information and comments on social networks concerning the case of this young girl, the CNDH, through its Regional Commission for the Oriental region, decided to approach the mother and the student concerned. They confirmed the information, adding that her request for re-enrollment has remained unanswered, due to the change of address, the CNDH statement said. It also indicates that it has taken note of the family and social conditions that have disrupted the student’s schooling. (…)

• Franco-Moroccan Activist Opens Youth Education Center in Morocco to Combat School Dropout
  11 March 2023, by Sylvanus

  The Franco-Moroccan activist Latifa Ibn Ziaten, mother of Imad, the first soldier assassinated in Toulouse by the terrorist Mohammed Merah on March 11, 2012, is inaugurating an IMAD educational center for Youth and Peace in Fnideq, in order to continue her fight for peace and to help young people.
  "Since Covid, many children have left school in Morocco. So we will first try to recover these young people aged 10, 11, 12, and then there will be people of all ages. We will work with the (…)

• Diploma Forgery Ring at Moroccan University Results in Harsh Sentences for 26
  9 January 2023, by Ginette

  26 people prosecuted for forgery of diplomas from the International University of Rabat were sentenced to heavy sentences by the criminal chamber of the Casablanca Court of Appeal.
  The main defendant, an employee of the University, was sentenced to 8 years in prison by the court. The two mediators between the main defendant and those who obtained fake diplomas in exchange for money were each sentenced to 5 years in prison.
  The criminal chamber also sentenced a third defendant to seven (…)

• Paris Mayor Candidate Dati Criticizes Voluntary School Return Policy, Citing Inequality Concerns
  6 May 2020, by Sylvanus

  "We have gone from the gradual resumption of school to a resumption today based on the voluntary participation of parents," laments Rachida Dati on France Info. For the LR candidate, this is a profound undermining of the principle of compulsory education, and consequently, of equal opportunity.
  "And in Paris, we are going even further, since we are asked to enroll the children of priority groups, without defining them," fumes the elected official. Her fear, she will say, is "that this (…)

• Morocco Faces Annual Exodus of 600 Engineers Seeking Opportunities Abroad
  15 January 2019, by Said

  Some 600 engineers abandon Morocco each year to try their luck abroad.
  This figure was revealed by the Minister of National Education and Vocational Training, Said Amzazi, on Monday during an intervention at the House of Representatives.
  According to the minister, this brain drain phenomenon affects all countries. "It is a global trend linked to the mobility of skills seeking to benefit from more advantages and more attractive salaries in the host countries," he said.
  Indeed, the (…)

• New French-Moroccan School in Rabat Boasts International Faculty and State-of-the-Art Facilities
  16 January 2019, by Said

  In a press release, the school group is pleased with the recruitment of teachers mainly from France and internationally, who "rely on the experience of its principal" and aim to "prove that educational success also comes from an optimal environment."
  Located on 14,000 m2, the school group will have a 250-seat auditorium, a catering area, a covered sports hall, outdoor sports facilities, scientific and technological laboratories as well as areas dedicated to languages, arts and various (…)

• Moroccan Teacher Wins Global Award for Low-Cost Interactive Slate Innovation
  17 September 2019, by Kamal

  At the "Global Teacher Conclave & Awards 2019" competition, organized in India, a Moroccan teacher received the "Global Teacher" Award for creating an interactive slate.
  Teacher Abdellah Wahbi, who holds the position of teacher in a primary school in Tiznit, was honored in India last weekend, he shared on his Facebook account.
  Working in a school in the middle of an isolated mountainous area, the teacher created an interactive slate costing no more than 600 dirhams, despite the lack (…)

• Violent Assault on Teacher Shocks Moroccan School as Education Tensions Rise
  26 March 2019, by Amine

  A 20-year-old student has just violently assaulted a teacher, in the vicinity of Taroudant, simply because the latter asked him to calm down.
  At a time when contract teachers are organizing demonstrations (violently dispersed by the security forces) to demand their integration into the civil service, a teacher has been attacked, very violently, in Oulad Tayma, near Taroudant.
  This happened at the Abdellah Chefchaouni high school, last Monday. The teacher asks the student to calm down, (…)