Victims of seniority go out to protest in front of the Ministry of Higher Education, amid demands for the final closing of the file

Agadir 24 | Agadir24

The National Coordination of Research Professors affected by the failure to count the general promotion earned in public employment announced the organization of a protest in front of the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, to demand the necessity of responding to its basic demand of “calculating general seniority in public employment.”

The coordination committee representing this category of higher education professors believes that the forms of protest that it has been waging for months come “in light of the Ministry of Higher Education’s complete disregard for the general seniority file and its failure to implement the commitments it had previously undertaken (during the era of Minister Saeed Amzazi) to settle this file within the framework of the statute.” the new”.

The victims of seniority, who numbered, according to coordination figures, 5,000 research professors, accused the Ministry of Higher Education of “denying the accumulation that was achieved in this file during some dialogues that brought them together with the former minister, guardian of the sector, who had previously promised them a final solution to the file,” according to their statement.

It should be noted that former employees who join higher education following their success in the competition are re-arranged according to the evidentiary numbers, as they find themselves stripped of their seniority in public employment, especially if they were not outside the ranks while signing the university enrollment report, which is something that…
Higher education professors demand that it be bypassed by calculating the seniority of those who practiced other professions within the framework of the public service.

It is also noteworthy that the National Syndicate for Higher Education had previously announced weeks ago that it had raised the issue of calculating the seniority of university professors in a dialogue with the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Abdellatif Mirawi, also demanding that the file be closed by calculating and approving what research professors have presented for years in the professions. Others fall within the framework of public service.