World Braille Day is annually celebrated on the 4th of January all over the world. In Morocco, teaching using this tactile writing system utilized by people is provided by the 13 centers of the Alaouite Organization for the Promotion of the Blind and the Moroccan Braille League, located in Taza. A close up on Braille teaching in Morocco.
Between Monday and Tuesday, two young Moroccan high-school girls took their own lives, underscoring a deeper malaise sweeping society. Moroccan psychosociologist Mouhcine Benzakour analyzes this societal phenomenon.
Moroccan students from the public educational sector have performed poorly in the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which assesses the knowledge and skills of 15-year-old students in mathematics, reading and science. The 2022 edition of PISA, which saw the participation of 6,867 students from 178 Moroccan schools, ranked the Kingdom 71st in mathematics, 79th in reading and 76th in science. In this interview, Abdennacer Naji, pedagogy expert and