The Hassan II University of Casablanca is making the fight against repeating years and dropping out its battle horse. The establishment wants to encourage students to carry their university course through to the end and, above all, improve the internal performance of the Licence cycle. To do this, it has launched summer courses for the benefit of students who have not validated the S1 or S2 semesters of the Licence cycle. This pilot experiment is being conducted at the Ain Chock Faculty of Sciences. "This operation, which is in its second year, consists of providing support and revision courses during the months of July and August for the benefit of students enrolled in the first year of the Licence cycle who have not validated their S1 or S2 semesters," indicates a statement from the Hassan II University of Casablanca. However, eligibility conditions are imposed by the university. "In order to benefit from the support courses, students must meet the following conditions: they must have validated at least two modules of the same semester; not have obtained eliminatory grades (lower than 05/20) for the non-validated modules; have obtained a grade greater than or equal to 10/20 in the practical tests provided in the non-validated modules," we learn from the same source. It must be said that this experiment has had a good echo among university students, particularly those in the first year who sometimes have difficulty adapting to the change in the system and the teaching framework. According to Hassan II University, the number of beneficiaries has evolved, since the start of this experiment, from 133 in 2010-2011 to 280 students enrolled for the 2011-2012 academic year. For the students, it is an opportunity to be seized, especially since these summer courses are supervised by about twenty teacher-researchers. They are also sanctioned by evaluation sessions at the beginning of September. No room then for slacking off. Better yet, these courses allow, in case of success, validation by anticipation in relation to the following academic year, either of a module or of a semester. According to Hassan II University, in terms of impact, these summer courses contribute not only to the reduction of the total number of years for obtaining a Licence, but also to the reduction of the cost of training, which is around 60%. Let us recall that dropping out mainly affects students in the first year of the Faculties of Legal and Economic Sciences, which generally welcome the largest number of students. University dropout is often linked to repeating years and the problem of the language of instruction. A large part of the students have difficulty following the courses given in French, given their limited capacities to master this language. Disappointment after failing to enrol in a higher engineering, commerce, or medical school... also makes enrolment in the faculty a transitional stage in the students' university course. Support and guidance would then be the best assets to encourage them to continue their university studies.

Tutoring and personalised support in order to guide the student in their path are among the priority measures taken within the framework of the projects of the emergency plan aimed at the fight against school and university dropout. The development of reorientation pathways intended for poorly oriented or dropout students is likely to increase the number of students who finish their university studies.

However, this process requires the involvement of all actors: information centre, teachers, parents, pedagogical and psychosocial counsellors, civil society, students...

It is also necessary to unify and harmonise the orientation and support mechanisms at the level of all regions of the Kingdom as well as at the level of the two sectors of secondary and university education.

-* Dropping out affects up to 30% of students in the first year of the Faculties of Legal and Economic Sciences.

-* The Faculty of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences of Aïn Sebaâ (FSJES) recorded a dropout rate of 47.35% among the staff of its first graduating class.

-* Orientation made it possible to reduce the dropout rate at the FSJES by 25 to 30% in one year.