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Rabat – The number of Moroccan students enrolled at UK universities reached 1,460 in the 2021-2022 academic year, show new data shared with Morocco World News.
Erudera, a world-leading education search platform, also listed the three universities hosting the highest number of Moroccan students in the previous academic season.
The first university on the list is the University of Sunderland, which hosted 85 students from Morocco in the 2021-2022 academic year; it was followed by Roehampton University with 75 students, and the University of Westminster with 75 students.
Another study from Erudera listed the top academic degrees associated with job shortages, listing healthcare-related degrees at the top of the list, followed by engineering degrees, science degrees, architecture, and computer science degrees.
The study means that moving to the UK will be easier if job applicants have degrees in the aforementioned sectors due to current and potential future vacancies.
For example, jobs in the sector of healthcare will have an estimated 6.2% job growth by 2027, which will lead to 4,300 new jobs, Erudera reported, quoting data from the UK’s National Careers Service.
“With 48.5% of the workforce projected to retire during the same period, a total of 33,400 vacancies will be available. Healthcare degrees in the UK offer promising career prospects, particularly in nursing, general practice, and healthcare assistance,” noted the data.
The UK has repeatedly expressed satisfaction with the growing number of Moroccan students attracted to British higher learning institutes and universities.
While visiting Morocco last month as part of the 4th UK-Morocco Strategic Dialogue initiative, Lord Tariq Ahmad, British Secretary of State for North Africa, South and Central Asia, the UN, and the Commonwealth spoke emphatically of his country’s satisfaction with the state of relations, especially cooperation in the education sector, between London and Rabat.
In an interview with Morocco World News, Lord Tariq Ahmed said: “We see more Moroccans increasingly attracted to British Education, and to studying in English, with growing numbers of students seeking to study for a UK degree via Transnational Education programmes, sit for UK qualifications, learn English or study at a British School.”
He also commended young Moroccans’ growing embrace of the English language, recalling the opening of the first Coventry University Branch in Bouskoura, near Casablanca.
Lord Tariq Ahmed stressed the opening of the university, saying he hoped this would pave the way for many more British Universities to follow suit.
“This growing interest in British education is driven by a shift towards English among young people,” he argued. On British schools, we have grown exponentially over the last two years with the number of accredited British schools almost doubling from 4 to 7 across different cities with many more in the pipeline.”
