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VEND. 20, SAM.21 ET DIM. 22 JANVIER 2023 - N°6436 NE PEUT ÊTRE VENDU SÉPARÉMENT DÉPÔT LÉGAL 100/1991 DIRECTEUR DE PUBLICATION KHALID BELYAZID
Weekly highlights by
version 2015
Système de Management de la Qualité
certifié ISO 9001 version 2008 par
BUREAU VERITAS MAROC
Growth
Recovery on hold
n The 3.3% rate
depends on clear skies
n Fears of a recession
in trading partners and
tightening of financial
conditions
n Lahlimi: “The shocks
we experienced had
more lasting effects”
The false drop in the Private education: A new
unemployment rate specification coming soon City of Rabat
flushes out its
puppet civil
servants
Real estate boost?
Editorial Attempt Meriem OUDGHIRI
P OOR public schools! Dragging too many ailments for decades, made against the teachers, the methods, or the language used, and during
public schools in the country are undoubtedly the sector with the this time, the educational level of pupils has declined very sharply. Moreo-
biggest record of diagnoses, reports, studies… until exhaustion. On ver, the figures delivered at the last Higher Education Council meeting are
paper, everyone agrees on what to do. On the ground, it is another reality. maddening: the overwhelming majority of students does not really unders-
Some improvements do appear however, as is the case of the agreement on tand what they are being taught. More than one third do not have any pre-
the new unified statute of National Education which has just been signed requisites allowing them to continue their education. Only 23% of pupils in
between the government and the central trade unions. The goal is to pave the 5th year of primary school can read an Arabic text of 80 words fluently.
the way for the implementation of the famous roadmap for a quality public And since 2016, school dropout concerns an average of 300,000 students
school which will have to find its place in the whirlwind of recovery at all per year. Today, it is disruptive projects that schools need, not band-aids.
costs. Along with investments and wealth creation, education and training The work will be very long, because we will have to start all over again,
are essential ingredients, but the Moroccan school continues to underper- and stop reforming, once again, the reforms. Otherwise, we will find our-
form overwhelmingly at all levels. For a long time, harsh criticism was selves at square one for another attempt to be made in 10 years, perhaps? o