Morocco Overhauls School Textbooks, Raising Cost Concerns for Parents

The "cleaning up" will lead to the modification of several textbooks at the primary and middle school levels, reports the daily Al Massae, citing a source within the department in charge of programs under the Ministry of National Education.

In detail, the newspaper indicates that the books of the Amazigh language and artistic education of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd level of primary school are concerned by this revision, as well as the French and artistic education manuals of the 5th and 6th year of primary school. At the college level, a revision of the technology manual of the 2nd level.

The new versions of the textbooks concerned will be published with new titles. They will have to be published by several publishing houses, knowing that their selling prices have already been set, specifies the same source.