Over 6.5 million students enrolled in Morocco’s schools

PERSISMA, Rabat – Some 6,593,194 students, 39% of whom live in rural areas, have started the school year 2011-2012 in different schools across the Kingdom.

The number of new entrants to primary schools reached 684,438 pupils, while the newly built schools amounted to 290 bringing the school’s overall number to 9,995, including 153  in rural areas.

The educational human resources were reinforced with 8346 new teachers. This increases the number of teachers to 233,180, of whom 56% teach in primary schools, 25% in junior high schools, and 19% in high schools.

To help achieve educational goals, several social support programmes were developed, notably the “one million school bag” initiative. This Royal initiative, to be implemented for a total cost of 313 million dirhams, will benefit 4,102,317 schoolchildren from different regions.

Source: MAP