Government Spokesperson Mustapha Baitas said that “the executive is studying ways to ensure that the academic achievements of the Moroccan students from Ukraine are not lost,” as the social discourse on their possible integration into Moroccan universities grows.
While noting that the government is “working on this issue and holding continuous meetings about it,” Baitas revealed that the number of students who registered on the online governmental platform for the students exceeds 7,000.
The government official explained, in a press conference following this week’s government council, that the first stage of processing the students’ applications was to identify their preferred solutions to their unexpected suspension of schooling in Ukraine, due to war.
“The government will announce its proposed solutions after processing and checking all requests submitted to the platform,” said Baitas, adding that “the government has mobilized swiftly and applied successful measures even before the outbreak of armed conflict, by mobilizing its embassies near Ukraine.”
On another matter, Baitas defended the head of government’s choice to assign the “Forsa” employment program to the Minister of Tourism, Fatim-Zahra Ammor, instead of the Minister of Economic Inclusion and Employment, saying that “both ministries work in one government.”
Another controversial choice in the management of the newly introduced “Forsa” program, is assigning the Moroccan Company of Tourist Engineering (SMIT) to lead the project, despite it being the subject of criticisms from the Supreme Court of Accounts back in 2013.
The official said that the company “has done a great job since 2013,” referring to improvements the SMIT made following the issuing of the court’s 2013 report, noting that what qualified it to lead the “Forsa” program is its “flexible administrative structure.”
With regard to the financial support allocated to public transport professionals, Baitas declined to specify the duration of the aid program, saying that “the aid is here for now, in hopes of a decline in international fuel prices.”
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