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  • Morocco Boosts Police Presence Near Schools to Combat Crime and Protect Students
    4 October 2019, by Ginette

    In order to fight against drug trafficking, harassment, assaults and other types of crime, the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) has given new directives to its services to strengthen surveillance around school establishments. Thus, police officers and motorcycle brigades will patrol permanently near schools.
    The objective of these directives, according to Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, is to bring the security services closer to students and schools for the protection of officials (…)

  • France Grapples with Teaching Religion in Schools Amid Secularism Concerns
    5 October 2019, by Sylvanus

    The author of the book "Can we talk about religions at school?", Isabelle Saint-Martin, settles the question of teaching religions at school in France, where 900 cases of violation of the principle of secularism were reported between April and July, in the school environment.
    "There will always be a parent who is outraged to see extracts from the Bible or the Quran in a textbook, or to learn that students will be visiting a church or a synagogue."
    This is how Isabelle Saint-Martin, (…)

  • Constitutional Council Upholds Free University Education in France, Impacting Foreign Student Fees
    12 October 2019, by Bladi.net

    The long-awaited decision of student associations and teachers’ unions was ratified on Friday, October 11 with the principle of free university education. Issued by the Constitutional Council, it comes seven months after the French Government adopted new decrees increasing the registration fees for foreign students.
    Seized by a request in July by student associations to rule on the unilateral decision of the Government on April 19, 2016, the Constitutional Council ratified on Friday, (…)

  • Morocco and Senegal Partner to Boost Automotive Industry Training
    16 October 2019, by Ginette

    The Institute of Training in Automotive Industry Trades in Casablanca (IFMIAC) and the Higher Institute of Vocational Education in Senegal (ISEP) in Diamniadio in Dakar, have just sealed an agreement to train technicians for automotive trades.
    The development of Africa through its own resources and solidarity between its countries that have the potential and resources.
    This is the wish of King Mohammed VI who, according to a press release from the Ministry of National Education, (…)

  • French University Sparks Controversy with ’Radicalization Signals’ Checklist
    16 October 2019, by Ginette

    A security and defense official at the University of Cergy-Pontoise made a mistake by sending all employees of the institution a form on "weak signals of radicalization." It provoked outrage after being posted on social media.
    The President of the University of Cergy-Pontoise, François Germinet, admits "a clumsiness" and apologizes for the image that such a form conveys of the university.
    Indeed, according to LeParisien.fr, the 1,800 employees of the university received, in the early (…)

  • French Region Halts Funding for Muslim High School Amid Islamism Concerns
    16 October 2019, by Ginette

    After the attack on the Paris Police Headquarters, several people are calling on the French President to launch a "republican offensive" against the "political Islamism that is gangrening" France. Xavier Bertrand, President of the Hauts-de-France Regional Council, made a media statement on this subject this weekend. On CNews, he announced that he had blocked the financing of investments for the private Muslim high school under contract, Averroès, in Lille.
    The suspension concerns the (…)

  • Moroccan Medical Students Win International Emergency Simulation Competition
    17 October 2019, by Ginette

    A team of Moroccan medical students has just won the International Medical Simulation Competition (SIMCUP) held on Monday in Prague, Czech Republic.
    The Moroccan team, according to the MAP, was composed of students from the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Oujda. At the end of the competition, it won the first prize of this competition by defeating France in the final.
    The SIMCUP was initiated by the European Society for Emergency Medicine. During the competition, students are faced (…)

  • Morocco Joins International Effort to Launch Climate-Monitoring Nanosatellites
    19 October 2019, by Ginette

    Successful launch of three "university nanosatellites", including a Moroccan satellite. The announcement was made by the British foundation, KSF Space, which was delighted with this scientific achievement.
    In this regard, Medias24 writes that the three nanosatellites were launched from Poland, as part of the cooperation between a group of universities in India, Poland, the United Kingdom and, of course, Morocco. The purpose of this experiment is to monitor climate change in the Northern (…)

  • Morocco Reports Over 11,000 Quranic Schools, 36,000 Students in Traditional Education
    23 October 2019, by Bladi.net

    A publication from the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs provides an update on the students and traditional educational institutions, spread throughout the Kingdom.
    Published under the title "Statistics of traditional educational institutions", the work provides precise information on the evolution of traditional education in Morocco.
    Thus, the Kingdom has 289 traditional educational institutions, which accommodate 36,531 students. As for the number of Koranic schools, it (…)

  • Fez High School Teacher Assaulted by Students Over Money Demand, Three Arrested
    30 October 2019, by Sylvanus

    Three students violently assaulted an IT teacher as he was leaving Ibn Khaldoun High School in Fez. The suspects were taken into custody while the victim, injured in the right leg, is receiving the necessary care at the Ghassani Regional Hospital.
    A preliminary investigation revealed that the teacher was assaulted at 6:15 pm by three students from the high school, including a former student. They intercepted him as he was leaving, according to the Provincial Directorate of Education in a (…)