School year off to a good start

The 2010-2011 school year in Tiznit, which coincides with the second year of the implementation of the Emergency Plan, is marked by palpable improvements in the schooling rate as well as the state of school infrastructure in the province, which has had a positive impact on the quality of education indicators. Thus, we note the realisation of a great advance in the percentage of schooling for pupils aged under 6, particularly in rural areas, where it reached 86% among girls and 88.7% among boys. Promising figures regarding the fight against the non-schooling of pupils living in these remote and mountainous areas. This at a time when 99.9% of children of the same age are schooled in the urban centres of the province. As for pupils reaching the age of schooling in the first grade of primary school, 2,949 learners, including 1,401 girls, are enrolled in school. Thus operating a spectacular…