Morocco Higher Education Situational Analysis Report

The USAID/Morocco Mission requested the Middle East Education, Research, and Training Support (MEERS) Activity to conduct this higher education situational analysis of the newly introduced bachelor’s degree in primary education (BPE), cycle de licence de l’éducation (CLE). The primary objective is to provide relevant information about the present state of undergraduate primary teacher preparation to inform the Higher Education Partnership program, which aims to support the development of a uniform bachelors in primary education (BPE) undergraduate degree in teaching.

The HE Partnership program has awarded a consortium of Moroccan institutions (and one U.S. institution: Arizona State University) a grant for five years of funding to invest towards developing a unified primary education teacher preparation program across Morocco. This situational analysis will inform the consortium of successes and challenges in the current system. It will also be of use to USAID/Morocco and other stakeholders within and outside of Morocco that are considering similar changes to their national primary teacher preparation programs.

The situational analysis has two primary areas of focus. The first focus is the first-year implementation of the BPE in eight selected universities (and nine departments within these universities). The analysis covers the teacher preparation structure, course content, materials, and delivery modes within different universities. The second focus is on the current system of teacher training at CRMEFs, where the final qualifying cycle of primary teacher training is conducted.