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Casablanca — Morocco’s National Court of Auditors has found that several regional educational and training academies have been mismanaged, notably in terms of teaching materials and misuse of lab chemicals.
The Court of Auditors yesterday published a summary report addressed to the Ministry of Education, detailing the results of an in depth investigation of several educational and training academies, which revealed a large scale mismanagement in terms of teaching aids and misuse of chemical products used in certain labs.
In its report, the court states that “the implementation of this investigation has identified evidence of dysfunction and a number of shortcomings […] which the Court of Auditors has already observed and made recommendations on.”
“However,” the statement continues, “these dysfunctions still persist, as noted by the advisors of the regional courts of auditors.”
Mostly, the dysfunctions described are in reference to the fact that many academies buy “equipment that is out of date or not compatible with educational programs.”
School laboratories are also poorly managed, the court says. “Laboratories are encumbered by enormous quantities of expired chemicals. This requires necessary measures to be taken, with the help of competent authorities, in order to inventory, collect and neutralize these products as soon as possible.”
The Court of Auditors does propose solutions to the Ministry of Education, namely to “coordinate the efforts of all parties involved in the management of these resources,” with the parties being the ministry, the academies’ board of directors and the teaching staff.
