Ministry Did Not Impose Regional Hiring Mode on Anyone, Official

Minister of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research Saaid Amzazi insisted, on Monday, that his department “did not impose the regional mode of hiring on anyone and remains committed to guaranteeing the right of students to apprenticeship”.

In response to two oral questions in the House of Representatives relating to the “worrying situation” of the sector and the progress of the current year, Amzazi presented as proof the success of this mode which is “the high, increasing and voluntary participation rate in the recruitment competitions organized annually by the regional academies, while the candidates were very acquainted with all the data relating to the professional situation of the academies’ teachers.

He pointed to the amplifications accompanying the issue of academies’ teachers, attributing them to the lack of communication on the different aspects of the issue, the non-support of its developments and the premeditated desire of certain parties “to bring the subject out of its true context”.

The regional hiring, adopted from the end of 2016, has demonstrated its importance and its efficiency for the education system, in the sense that it has enabled the recruitment of 100,000 teachers within 5 years, the equivalent of which has previously taken more than 20 years, and allowed the achievement of spatial justice in terms of educational services for children and girls, mainly in the rural world, he explained.

In the same context, Amzazi highlighted the evolution of the statutory situation of academies’ teachers, which took place in three main stages. The first consisted of the organization by the regional academies of recruitment competitions on contracts. The second was based, thanks to the great support of the government in 2018, on improving the regulatory conditions for recruiting this category by setting up a specific statute in 55 articles approved by the boards of academies.

The third stage was marked by the abandonment of the contractual regime and the adoption of the system of equivalence in rights and obligations, coupled with the development of the legal framework with the aim of “rectifying the administrative situation of this category”.