Fez - According to a report issued on Friday by the Highest Committee of Education, students continue to perform poorly at schools in Morocco although the government has repeatedly augmented the budget for improving the educational system in the kingdom.
Fez – According to a report issued on Friday by the Highest Committee of Education, students continue to perform poorly at schools in Morocco although the government has repeatedly augmented the budget for improving the educational system in the kingdom.
The study reports that Moroccan students are among the underachievers, despite increases in the budget allocated to the Ministry of Education over the past thirteen years. The budget has risen 7.15% over the past 13 years.
The report noted that the efforts are “not sufficiently efficient” which is disappointing to Moroccans’ aspirations. The report stressed that the number of drop outs is still high, indicating that four million students have quit school in the twelve past years, three million of whom left before finishing Middle school, half a million before finishing primary school, and three hundred thousand before finishing high school.
With respect to scientific subjects, Morocco ranks only one position before Yemen which appears last in the list. This low ranking is ascribed to students’ inability to achieve average grade in mathematics and physics, and their inability to master Arabic.
The report ascribed as the causes of this failure not attending elementary school, poor conditions of learning, poor quality of supervision, the inadequate use of technology, and the socioeconomic situation of families.
Higher education also received its share of criticism in the report due to the low number of students who graduate, only fourteen percent in 2006/2007, twenty percent in 2008, and nineteen percent in 2009.
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