Rabat- The Ministry of National Education, Primary Education, and Sports has unveiled its plans for the upcoming academic year 2024-2025, encompassing various developments, programs, and projects.
A primary focus is the expansion of English and Amazigh language education. The ministry aims to increase the number of educational institutions offering Amazigh language courses, targeting a 50% coverage rate by the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year.
The ministry has outlined its initiative to introduce Amazigh language instruction in primary education, commencing in the 2023/2024 school year with full implementation expected by the start of the 2029/2030 school year.
To support these efforts, the ministry is implementing a comprehensive strategy across organizational, administrative, pedagogical, training, and support domains at central, regional, provincial, and local levels.
The ministry plans to recruit 600 specialized professors for Amazigh language instruction and annually train at least 2,000 dual-discipline teachers to facilitate this expansion.
The new academic season will also witness an expansion of English language teaching to cover 50% of preparatory education and 100% of the second year of education.
According to the decision issued by the Ministry on Thursday, July 4, 2024, the academic year will begin on September 2, 2024. The teaching staff will join the day after, on September 3, to be informed of the developments for the new season and to discuss the contents of the integrated institution’s project, especially the educational aspects related to the core learnings that the institution will focus on.
On Wednesday, September 4, 2024, classes will commence for both levels of primary education, the first and second years of the primary education stream, the first year of the preparatory secondary education stream, and the common stream of the qualifying secondary education stream.
The Ministry confirmed that the upcoming season will see the phased rollout of the Pioneer Institutions Project in the primary sector, with an increase of 2,000 institutions annually, and its extension to include qualifying secondary schools up to Level 230.
