HIBAPRESS – Yassine Damiri
The Education, Culture, and Communication Committee in the House of Representatives held a meeting, attended by Mohamed Saïd Barrada, the Minister of National Education, Preschool Education, and Sports, within the framework of completing the detailed discussion of draft law number 59.21 concerning school education. This meeting comes in the context of the national debate on reforming the education system and developing its regulatory legislative framework to keep pace with the educational and social transformations that Morocco is experiencing.
During the meeting, the Minister provided clarifications on the main objectives sought by the project, pointing out that the law aims to establish new foundations for managing school education, enhance the quality of learning, and ensure equal opportunities among all learners. Barrada also emphasized the importance of integrating the psychological dimension into the educational process, highlighting that the Ministry received proposals from a number of associations wishing to contribute to providing psychological support to students, which he considered one of the motives that prompted the inclusion of this aspect in the draft law. He explained that educational reform is not limited to curricula and textbooks only, but also includes the psychological and social environment of learners, stressing that providing psychological support represents a fundamental pillar for improving the performance of students and ensuring their proper integration within the school environment. The aforementioned ministerial official pointed out that the Ministry is working on developing mechanisms for coordination with various actors in order to organize this field in a structured and precise manner that ensures the quality and sustainability of services, adding: "There are associations that wanted to provide psychological support to students and expressed their desire to contribute to the development and improvement of public schools, and we did not have any legal text that frames this matter, and this is one of the reasons why we thought about making this law". The Minister concluded his intervention by emphasizing that draft law 59.21 constitutes a new building block in the path of educational reform, and aims to build an open, inclusive Moroccan school, capable of responding to the aspirations of society and keeping pace with development challenges.
