Education inspectors monitor “irregularities” in the new school year, and call on Benmoussa’s ministry to address the situation

Agadir24

The Union of Education Inspectors in Morocco revealed that it had detected organizational and managerial “disruptions” related to the new school year 2024/2025, in connection with the developments that the educational system in general and the Moroccan school in particular are experiencing at the managerial and pedagogical level in light of the implementation of the provisions of the 2022-2026 roadmap.

The Moroccan Education Inspectors Union, one of the largest trade union organizations of the inspection body, explained in a statement that these irregularities are evident in “the delay in managing the surplus and shortage of human resources, the stumbling blocks in the rehabilitation and equipment processes in educational institutions, especially in pioneering institutions, and the improvisation in implementing a number of organizational decisions and memoranda.”

In addition, the union pointed out in its statement other irregularities, including those related to “the near absence of committees that monitor school entry processes in an institutional manner due to the disruption or failure to establish a mechanism for regional and provincial councils to coordinate inspection in a number of academies and regional directorates.”

Accordingly, the union called on the Ministry of National Education to “issue decrees and decisions that are consistent with the reform orientations, the requirements of the framework law, and the recommendations of the Higher Council for Education and Training in a way that serves the public interest of the educational system,” while “ensuring that it fulfills its obligations at the organizational, material, and logistical levels by providing the conditions, circumstances, and means of work for all categories without exception.”

On another subject, the Inspection Authority expressed its absolute rejection of “excluding female and male students of the Education Inspectors Training Center – Educational Inspectors Track, Groups (22-24) and (23-25) from benefiting from the provisions of Article 76 of the Basic Law (two years),” calling on the Ministry to “address the matter in order to achieve fairness and justice among all employees of the Ministry in charge of National Education.”

The same authority reiterated its emphasis on “adhering to the demands file of the Education Inspectors Syndicate, which was approved by the National Council in its session dated June 4, 2022, and its commitment to advocating for it until all the legitimate rights and demands of the authority are achieved.”

This file includes, according to the same source, “enabling the various categories of the inspection body to exercise their original duties specified in the basic system, especially the categories of educational guidance inspectors, educational planning inspectors, and financial affairs inspectors, and ending functional conflict in the exercise of duties by setting fair standards and effective management of transitional movement, and by opening the training paths for guidance inspectors and planning inspectors that have been closed since 2013.”

In addition, the educational inspectors demand that the relevant ministry “speed up the issuance of the decision related to organizing and coordinating the work of the inspection, supervision, monitoring and evaluation body to restore the mechanism of specialized central coordination,” in addition to “activating the roles of the central, regional and provincial council for coordinating inspection in organizing and coordinating the work of the inspection body, and institutionalizing joint work between the categories and fields of inspection through the tasks of inspection, monitoring, evaluation, research and training.”