Nearly 11,000 Moroccan students are suffering the effects of confinement in the cramped and unsanitary dormitories. The situation is very alarming, especially since overcrowding promotes the transmission of the coronavirus.
The educational platforms put online by the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training are now freely accessible to all Moroccan students.
A student association from Casablanca went to Ait Bou Yahya, in the province of Taroudant, to provide medical care and other services, such as the renovation and decoration of the Bou Yahya school, for the happiness of the students. 2M devoted a report to this social crusade.
Moroccan students are increasingly interested in private education. According to the Ministry of Higher Education, the private sector has just crossed the 50,000 student mark enrolled in higher education cycles in Morocco.
While 100 Moroccan nationals, including students, are about to be repatriated to Morocco, 11 students residing in Wenzhou, the second city most affected by the coronavirus, are launching a cry for help.
The repatriation of the 100 Moroccan nationals, including students, blocked in the city of Wuhan, China due to the coronavirus epidemic, was effective this Sunday, February 2, 2020. The plane landed at Bensalimane airport near Casablanca.
Dropping out of university continues to dictate its law with a rate that raises concern. While nearly 16.5% of new students dropped out of their studies during the new academic year, 47.2% did so without obtaining a degree.
In order to protect Moroccan students in China from the Coronavirus epidemic, the Moroccan authorities have taken the necessary measures for their repatriation. According to the information available to the Arabic-language site Hespress.com , the return of these Moroccan students, estimated at more than 100, will begin this Thursday. They will be isolated, as a precautionary measure, in Meknes and Rabat, for about twenty days.
Moroccan students still dominate all other foreign communities in France in 2019. They remain at the top, despite a decline recorded compared to 2018.
King Mohammed VI ordered, during a working session, the repatriation to Morocco of the hundred Moroccans stranded in Wuhan, the epicenter of the Coronavirus virus.
Without financial resources, Amine Abounour, a young Moroccan student at a business school in Dijon, has launched an online crowdfunding campaign on the GoFundMe website to pay his tuition fees.
Several Moroccan consulates general abroad have announced the opening of applications to benefit from university scholarships reserved for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs.