A loan agreement for additional financing of the program “Support to the Education Sector” was signed this Wednesday, April 5 in Rabat, by the Minister Delegate in charge of the Budget, Fouzi Lekjaa, and the Director of the Maghreb and Malta, Middle East and North Africa Department at the World Bank, Jesko Hentschel, in the presence of Chakib Benmoussa, Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Faouzi Lekjaa said that this additional funding amounts to 250 million dollars, which will bring the total funding of the program to 750 million dollars. He also stressed the importance of this agreement which aims to continue to support the achievements of the educational reform in the Kingdom, as well as to meet the challenges and issues of this reform.
He also stressed the importance of this agreement which aims to continue to support the achievements of the educational reform in the Kingdom, as well as to meet the challenges and issues of this reform.
This additional funding will allow a focus on quality while expecting significant results on the quantitative side with “100,000 additional preschool children and 12,000 teachers,” he said.
The program is structured around three components: the first is the establishment of an environment conducive to the provision of quality preschool education services through the implementation of a training program for preschool educators, the deployment of a training system for 20,000 preschool educators and the development of a framework and implementation of tools to measure the quality of the learning environment in preschool.
The second direction is to support the improvement of teaching practices in basic education by improving models for the selection, recruitment, induction and deployment of teachers, consolidating a coherent, coordinated and comprehensive training model and implementing online training courses and a technological platform for knowledge sharing.
Finally, the third direction aims to strengthen management and accountability capacities along the education service delivery chain by digitizing data collected at the school level in the education management information system (MASSAR), setting up an evaluation and assessment mechanism for the implementation of school projects including guidelines, rules for monitoring and feedback and creating an evaluation system at the provincial and regional levels. This additional funding will allow a focus on quality while expecting important results on the quantitative side with “100,000 additional preschool children and 12,000 teachers,” he said.
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