The Group for Progress and Socialism in the House of Representatives alerted Minister of National Education, Preschool, and Sports, Mohamed Saad Brada, to what it called the “repeated setbacks” threatening the success of the Riada Schools project.
This came in a question posed by parliamentary deputy Hassan Oumribt to the minister, stating that numerous setbacks are affecting the “Riada Schools” project during the current academic year. Oumribt added that these setbacks are causing “increasing concern among educational and administrative staff, as well as families, due to their direct impact on student performance and the quality of work within educational institutions.” Despite the increasing importance the ministry attaches to this project, which aims, according to its vision, to address students’ academic difficulties and improve success rates, its implementation has faced several shortcomings. Oumribt outlined these shortcomings, primarily the “delay in providing educational institutions with working equipment (laptops and projectors), which are essential tools for activating the digital content used in the project.” He continued, noting a “delay in providing intensive support workbooks for the support period, which hindered the timely launch of the process and affected the implementation of the support plan in this context.” He pointed out that these issues, which should have been the exceptional cases addressed by trainers during teacher training based on the assumption that teachers would rarely face them, have unfortunately become the norm, according to Oumribt. The parliamentary deputy reminded the minister that the teachers involved in the project received intensive training focusing on using digital tools and their interactive resources, making the absence or malfunction of these tools render the training pointless and forcing teachers to resort to alternative solutions that undermine the project’s philosophy and objectives.
The concerning aspect, according to the parliamentary deputy, is that “these shortcomings will directly affect the results of the interim evaluation, which is a key factor for the institution to receive the Riada label, thus depriving the educational team of the incentive bonus (10,000 dirhams), despite their considerable efforts.” Oumribt concluded that the project, which was launched with the aim of addressing student setbacks, “itself needs its organizational and field setbacks addressed,” questioning the minister about the measures he intends to take to “remedy these setbacks and ensure the success of the Riada Schools project, in accordance with its objectives and principles of fairness and incentive for educational staff.”
