Moroccan parents of Ukraine students protested this Tuesday in front of the Higher education Ministry’s headquarters, in an attempt to initiate dialogue with the Ministry to cancel the entrance exam condition.
The Higher Education Minister, Abdellatif Miraoui recently said in the House of Councillors that the integration of students into Moroccan universities and higher institutes will be based on an entrance exam, which is expected to take place after the upcoming Eid in July.
Vice-president of the national association of parents of Moroccan students in Ukraine, Mustapha Merrabi told Hespress in a statement that “students came back to Morocco because the Ministry promised to integrate them into Moroccan universities and higher education institutes, especially with the launch of the national platform that collects data on their fields.”
“The Minister promised those students since March 4 to integrate them with no exclusion,” he further specified.
Mother of a Moroccan student in Ukraine, Leila also told Hespress that “these protests aim to raise the Ministry’s attention in order to hold talks about this disagreement and find solutions.”
“The Ministry kept quiet for four months, and then decided without having a previous direct social dialogue on the matter,” she added.
“The Ministry’s decisions are only partial solutions; how can it be possible for students to take an entrance exam, after they were studying and taking exams remotely with their universities during this whole period,” she further stated.
“The Higher Education Ministry also said that it is planning to integrate admitted students into the previous year (Y-1) than what they had previously been enrolled in prior to the war’s outbreak, “I cannot see that this is a good idea,” she further stated.
“Why don’t they integrate students and then evaluate them after taking class exams,” she wondered in a statement.
Father of a Moroccan student in Ukraine, Mohammed Khoukhachni told Hespress that the goal behind these protests is to raise the Ministry’s attention in order to hold talks and overcome the students’ crisis.
“Decisions were revealed with no previous dialogue nor requiring opinion on them from concerned parties,” he added.
“Social dialogue is important to find an acceptable solution for both the Ministry and students,” he further stated.
“There are students who only want to finish studies at their Ukrainian universities, others who want to integrate Moroccan universities, while others want to resume studies in a neighboring country to Ukraine, and even those who want to open their private practices,” he added.
Following the ongoing Russian offensive in Ukraine that began on February 24, most Moroccan students returned to their home country, in hopes to find a solution to their case.
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