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• 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 (…)

• Morocco Emerges as Top Destination for African Medical Students
  1 June 2021, by Sylvanus

  TV5 covers the topic in a report broadcast on the Journal de l’Afrique. The journalist meets Souley Yaouba, a 23-year-old Cameroonian student in his fourth year of medicine. The young man arrived in Morocco at the age of 19. His ambition is to become a physiotherapist for high-level athletes. He settled in Casablanca where he is pursuing his medical studies. Studying in Morocco and becoming doctors is the most widely shared ambition among the Yaoubas. Souley’s brothers are also in the (…)

• Liberian Students Clash with Moroccan Police Over Delayed Scholarships
  11 August 2019, by Kamal

  A large gathering of Liberian students in front of their embassy in Rabat was not to the liking of the Moroccan authorities, who had to use force to disperse the protesters. They were protesting against the delay in the disbursement of their study grants.
  According to the students’ statements, the Moroccan police would have shown roughness towards them. Information that was formally denied by the head of the communication service within the Liberian Embassy in Rabat.
  "The police did not (…)

• Tragedy Strikes: Three Togolese Students Drown at Moroccan Beach Near Casablanca
  10 September 2019, by Sylvanus

  Three Togolese scholarship students studying in Morocco died by drowning during an outing to El Jadida near Casablanca while they were swimming at the Sidi Moussa beach.
  According to the Coordination of Togolese Students and Trainees in Morocco (CESTOM), the tragedy occurred in the evening of September 5.
  Robert Dussey, Togolese Minister of Foreign Affairs, has disclosed the identities of the deceased: Kossi Amégno Adoulé, Kokouvi Rodrigue Afotogbé and Yao Mawoussi Noumouley. They were (…)

• New Multidisciplinary Faculty Breaks Ground in Taounate, Morocco
  22 October 2019, by Bladi.net

  The laying of the first stone for the construction of the Multidisciplinary Faculty of Taounate was effective on Sunday, October 20, in the commune of Mazraoua by the supervising Minister, Saïd Amzazi. This new Faculty, which is part of the University Sidi Mohammed Benabdellah of Fez (USMBA), will cost around 100 million dirhams.
  This temple of knowledge will be built on an area of more than 54 hectares, of which nearly 13,000 m2 are covered. According to Huffpost, the 100 million dirhams (…)

• OFPPT Trains Over 350,000 in Morocco, Expands Vocational Programs to African Countries
  8 November 2019, by Ginette

  The Office of Vocational Training and Employment Promotion (OFPPT) trained 353,581 trainees, including 22,600 enrolled in qualifying training, for the 2018-2019 season, according to data announced at the Board of Directors meeting of this institution, held last Monday in Rabat.
  "The assessment of OFPPT’s activity for the 2018-2019 fiscal year recorded several changes due to the reforms undertaken by the Office’s management, following the royal guidelines," said the Director General, (…)

• France Leads OECD in Converting Foreign Students to Skilled Workers
  6 November 2022, by Sylvanus

  Young Moroccans and other nationalities pursuing higher education in France quickly move from student status to worker status. They constitute a valuable pool of skilled labor.
  "52% of work permits issued were to people who were previously students. So it’s a super important channel for feeding skilled labor immigration," explains Jean-Christophe Dumont, head of the migration division at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Compared to Italy (46%) and Japan (…)

• Solar Decathlon Africa: Students Build Self-Sustaining Homes in Benguerir, Morocco
  1 September 2019, by Bladi.net

  From all over the world, student candidates for the Solar Decathlon Africa in Benguerir have started their project of building and assembling intelligent and sustainable homes. They whose design and development took more than a year are energy self-sufficient.
  Benguerir has been hosting these student candidates for the international benchmark competition in the field of sustainable housing since Wednesday, August 28, 2019. Having started construction a year earlier, they intend to (…)

• Moroccan Students Face Housing Crisis at French University
  8 September 2019, by Sylvanus

  Khalid Ziati, 23, is a Moroccan first-year student at ISEM. He is desperately looking for housing in a university residence to be closer to his Institute. This is not an isolated case. Indeed, about fifty of them come to the Crous every day to plead their case, in the hope, without much belief, of a last-minute cancellation, reports France Info.
  At the root of this difficulty is a housing shortage faced by the Regional Center for University and School Works (Crous). The institution only (…)

• Tunisia Secures Tuition Fee Exemption for Students in France, Morocco Awaits Decision
  21 February 2019, by Said

  Tunisian students will be exempted from tuition fees imposed by France from the next academic year, the Tunisian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Slim Khalbous has just announced. When will the same decision be made for Moroccan students?
  "We have requested a significant exemption for Tunisian students studying in France," the minister said, adding that his department has been able to obtain "an exemption each year for enrollment in master’s and doctoral programs, as (…)