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News 28 May 2013 2 min read

The fight of young people against dropping out

- 24 young people established their own diagnosis of the school dropout situation in Morocco as part of a study entitled "Youth Speak".
- The results of this research work were presented during a meeting organised on 23 May in Fez.
The fight of young people against dropping out
School dropout is one of the greatest evils of the education system in Morocco. To fight against this scourge, the Ministry of National Education and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have joined forces and launched within the framework of the Itqane project, which aims to improve training to promote quality in national education, a multitude of actions that aim to encourage the schooling of children and to combat failure and school dropout at the level of Moroccan middle schools. "Certainly, the Moroccan government is making considerable efforts to fight against school dropout, however, the figures remain very worrying. Indeed, in Morocco, some 360,000 students leave school prematurely each year and find themselves victims of precariousness and social exclusion. It is for this reason that with the Moroccan government, we have joined our efforts to combat th…

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