Morocco earmarks 3 billion dirhams (350 million dollars) to upgrade schools.
King Mohammed VI has been in Fez to launch part of the national emergency project to reform education and training systems.
Targeting 15,300 school units over a period of two years, the national program to upgrade public schools provides for improving the educational offer and implementing compulsory education until the age of 15 years.
It is intendedt to renovate 300 boarding schools and connect schools to water and electricity grids. The king also heard explanations on a program to upgrade and equip schools in Fez-Boulemane region. Besides connecting the region’s schools to drinking water, electricity, and purification networks, the program provides for renovating teaching equipment and material.
On this occasion, the monarch presided over the signing ceremony of a framework partnership and cooperation agreement for the upgrading of 126 schools in the Prefecture of Fez.
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