Morocco Aims to Boost Higher Education by Recruiting Moroccan Talent from Abroad

The thorny issue of reforming the special status of the higher education teaching staff is about to be resolved, a source of disagreement between the government and the higher education unions.

Speaking at the press conference following the government council meeting held on Thursday, the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Abdellatif Miraoui, assured that the government is committed to repatriating Moroccan skills working abroad.

The objective is to raise the level of education in Moroccan universities, he said, while recalling that the current status governing the teaching staff does not allow the integration of academics working abroad.

To remedy this, a new status is being finalized, he announced, the result of an agreement with the national union of higher education and scientific research. The text will be finalized during the month of September, he specified.