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Tuesday 4 June 2013

WB Grants Second $100 Mln Loan To Morocco's Educational Reforms

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WB Grants Second $100 Mln Loan To Morocco's Educational Reforms

MAP-  The World Bank (WB) granted Morocco, on Tuesday in Rabat, a second loan worth 100 million dollars (around 859 mln dirhams) to support the country's educational system reforms.

 Inked by Economy ministry Nizar Baraka and director of Maghreb department at the World Bank Simon Gray, the loan of education development policy (PPD2-Education) seeks to foster the education sector's institutional framework through a series of measures, namely the improvement of access to education notably for children in rural zones, the amelioration of the quality of education and learning in primary and middle schools and the decentralization of the sector's governance.

 This second loan is a recognition of achievements made in the field as the training of teachers, the decentralization of the educational system's governance and the funding of schools, Gray said.

 Highlighting the progress made by Morocco in terms of national education, he underlined the Kingdom's needs in this field notably balancing school programs with competences to be acquired in the modern world, a better qualification of the teaching staff and the funding which puts emphasis on efficiency.

 Baraka underlined the loan's main aims which are three: making schooling up to age 15 mandatory, remedying the system's shortcomings, and ensuring means of success