Morocco World News with agencies
Rabat, July 23, 2012
Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Training of Executives Lahcen Daoudi announced the decision of the government to put an end to the free higher education studies and to annul the promotion of professors on the basis of seniority in the upcoming appropriation bill.
This decision aims at promoting the quality of university training, Daoudi told L’Economiste daily, adding that households with sufficient means will fund their children’s higher studies, whereas the poor will be provided for.
“We are willing to support poor students and those coming from lower middle classes, but it is time that households that can afford it contributed to the effort of the community,” he said, asserting that after consultation, the Government will introduce a reform in the next Finance Bill before the Parliament.
Regarding university professors, Daoudi deemed it “indispensable” to break away with the old promotion system based on seniority and to replace it with a more efficient system that would contribute to improving the quality of higher education.
“It is indispensable to end the system of promotion of teachers on the criterion of seniority and replace it with a system of promotion based on research output,” he said, adding that the new criteria will include the number of publications in specialized journals and the notion of seniority will gradually disappear with the impending creation of a new status.
