The education system boasts of a certain quality but, in reality, the Moroccan school is not exempt from reproaches. To tackle the complexity of its ills, the Regional Directorate of Casablanca-Anfa launched, Thursday, June 9, national consultations.
In recent years, the government has pledged to carry out ambitious reforms to enable children to benefit from a quality education. However, Morocco is struggling to stay the course towards the 4th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), namely to ensure access for all to quality education, on an equal footing, and to promote learning opportunities. throughout life, as already noted in 2020 by the World Bank.
The institution estimated that 66% of Moroccan children aged 10 were unable to read and understand simple text, a percentage 2.5 points lower than the regional average for the Middle East and North Africa. and 10.7 points above the average for lower-middle-income countries.
To make matters worse, the health and economic crisis linked to Covid-19 has weakened Morocco’s progress in education, thus putting in difficulty the implementation sites of the reforms undertaken within the framework of the Strategic Vision for education 2015-2030.
To tackle the complexity of all these bottlenecks, the Regional Directorate of Casablanca-Anfa launched, Thursday, June 9, national consultations.
Generate and bring out various ideas
The activities of these territorial consultations, through their organization and the composition of the participants, have been spaces for constructive and integrated exchange at the local level, around a quality school for all, allowing the highlighting of concrete proposals for the realization of this community project.
In order to generate and bring out various ideas that would accompany and support quality schools, the Regional Directorate of Casablanca-Anfa, in collaboration with the Provincial Council of Sidi Belyout, involved all the actors and stakeholders in a “coordinated manner” in the exchanges. which took place yesterday in Casablanca. “The Moroccan school is, without a doubt, a quality school.
The proof is that most of our executives and managers, whether in the public or private sector, come from it,” said Kenza Chraibi on Thursday, on the sidelines of the launch of the consultations. This, adds the president of the district of Sidi Belyout-Casablanca, does not prevent that “we have the obligation to continue to work in the direction of the improvement of this school and to work permanently for a better quality of teaching”.
Regarding the concrete contribution expected from the various institutions to improve the quality of Moroccan schools, Chraibi is convinced that all the actors concerned by this subject can bring added value to the improvement of the quality of education. in Morocco.
It’s everyone’s business
“So everyone at their level and according to their competence, has the responsibility to build this project and to follow the path, as desired by His Majesty, as well as the New Development Model of 2021”. Pending the conclusions of the consultations, Morocco should, according to the World Bank, preserve education spending to limit the transmission of poverty from one generation to another, particularly in this context of budgetary contraction.
To do this, she explains, the country might continue to focus on the objectives of its Vision 2015-2030 and learn from the lessons of the coronavirus crisis to accelerate reforms. In detail, it is a question, in particular, of fighting once morest the risk of dropping out, by carrying out awareness campaigns and by studying the possibility of setting up incentives, in particular of a financial nature.
The institution also recommends building the capacity of teachers, an essential aspect, at a time when they must not only change their teaching practices to get out of memorization but also improve their digital skills and adapt. distance learning methods. There is also a need to encourage the development of stronger public-private partnerships (PPP) in order to improve access to quality education for all.
Added to this is the need to adopt new approaches to accelerate reforms and to engage in strategic international alliances to exploit opportunities for cooperation in innovation and the exchange of good practices.
Khadim Mbaye / ECO Inspirations
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