PPS: “obscene” increases imposed by private schools under the pretext of free prices

Heba Press – Rabat

During its last meeting, the Political Bureau of the Party of Progress and Socialism focused on entry into education, school and university, and the major challenges and difficulties it poses to Moroccan families, especially those of the middle class and the most vulnerable, mainly due to the vertiginous increase in the cost of school entry conditions, especially given the imbalances and chaos in the school book market.

Concretely, the Political Bureau stopped at the scandalous increases imposed by most private educational institutions regarding registration fees and monthly homework, under the pretext of free prices and competition, in addition to imposing the purchase of imported textbooks, which weighs even more heavily on the families concerned.

Regarding university admission, the Politburo referred to the ongoing crisis in the faculties of medicine and pharmacy, which is likely to worsen after the arrival of the new class of students in these faculties, in the event that the government continues to be unable to find an appropriate solution to this dilemma that, while upsetting families, harms the reputation of our country’s high level of education and the prospects for reforming the national health system.

Faced with these situations that the government ignores, and at best addresses with great frivolity, the Party of Progress and Socialism alerts the government to the need to address in a decisive, constructive and effective manner the issues of access to education, which concern millions of Moroccan families, and to be fully concerned with taking urgent measures to protect and take into account the financial capacities of Moroccan families and to bring together all the conditions for the success of this entry.

The party also calls on the government to truly undertake the necessary reforms, to provide all the capacities and conditions to be able to rely above all on quality and equitable public education, in order to protect the future of Moroccan girls and boys, in order to preserve the character of education as a strategic public service and to protect families from the greed of the private sector, by effectively ensuring its codification and supervision in accordance with the requirements of the framework law.