Kamal Oudrhiri: "The language factor constitutes a handicap for a partnership between Moroccan and American universities"

The language factor constitutes a handicap for cooperation between American research centres and Moroccan universities, indicated, on Tuesday in Kenitra, Mr. Kamal Oudrhiri, a Moroccan telecommunications engineer at the Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Pasadena in California.Mr. Oudrhiri, who was leading a conference with one of his colleagues, a robotics specialist at NASA, Mr. Paulo Younse, and the Moroccan athlete Nezha Bidouane, world champion in the 400-metre hurdles, at the National School of Management and Commerce (ENCG) of Kenitra on the theme of success through innovation, particularly insisted on the mastery of the English language. American research centres, he said, establish collaborative relationships with public universities that master the English language.Mr. Oudrhiri, who is also president of the American foundation Grove of Hope, is giving, from 2 to 16 May, a series of l…