Insensitive to the distress of parents, whose financial situation is alarming due to covid-19, some private schools in Fès-Meknès are opting for unilateral decisions that do not take their social situation into account. After several unsuccessful mediation attempts with the supervisory authorities, parents have now decided to turn to the public sector.
Parents of students will not pay the full tuition fees due for the 3rd quarter. This is the promise made by the Minister of National Education, Saïd Amzazi , following a meeting with the National Federation of Parents’ Associations.
Moroccans are gradually developing a disaffection for French schools. This is at least what the 2019 report on the state of higher education, research and innovation in France reveals.
The government has decided to organize the BAC exams while respecting the restrictive measures issued by the health authorities. In this regard, more than 15 gymnasiums will be selected in Rabat to host the 2019-2020 baccalaureate exams, exceptionally scheduled for July due to the covid-19 pandemic.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has welcomed the initiative of the Spanish government that has allowed a 12-year-old Moroccan girl to be enrolled in school in Melilla , despite the illegal situation of her mother.
More than twenty textbooks will undergo changes from the next school year. Informed, the association of booksellers in Morocco cries scandal.
Relations between parents and managers of certain private school groups remain tense, to the point where the supervisory ministry has been seized by the parents. The disagreement is related to the payment of tuition fees during the crisis period.
While parents affected by the health crisis related to the coronavirus insist on reducing or even not paying the third quarter tuition fees, the heads of French schools in Morocco are not backing down.
Families with children in French schools in Morocco are having difficulty paying fees due to the crisis related to the coronavirus. A survey conducted from May 1 to 5 by the Grouping of Parent-Teacher Associations of French Educational Establishments in Morocco reveals that 3 out of 10 families cannot pay their children’s tuition.
Sports facilities will be mobilized for the Moroccan Baccalaureate exams, said Saaid Amzazi, Minister of National Education.
The group of associations of parents of students in French educational institutions in Morocco (APEK, API, CAPE, PEEP) demands from the Agency for French Education Abroad a "negotiated" invoice, rejecting the maintenance of third-quarter tuition fees unchanged. This is revealed by a survey evaluating distance learning since the beginning of confinement.
The 2020 session of the baccalaureate exam will take place on July 3 and 4 for the literary and human sciences branches and the original education, and from July 6 to 8 for the scientific and technical branches and the vocational baccalaureate.