THE PERFORMANCE OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN MOROCCO: A SPATIAL ANALYSIS

Aomar Ibourk and Jabrane Amaghouss ()

Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 2014, vol. 14, issue 2

Abstract: Education has been a key factor in the development of countries all over the world and the current differences in living standards are largely due to it. In the immediate post-independence period, Morocco was forced to face several a constraint among which is building an educational system that meets the growing needs of the society. Despite all the reforms implemented by the public authorities, the performance of the educational system remains very low (the persistence of illiteracy, the enrolment rates are still very low throughout all levels, high proportion of school drop-outs, lower achievement levels, unemployment among graduates and persistent inequalities). The purpose of this paper is to analyze the performance of the Moroccan educational system from a spatial perspective. Any educational policy should aim to increase the level of the stock of human capital through investments in public infrastructures (schools, roads…) especially in rural areas in order to reduce disparities and also to ensure high quality education that meets the needs of the current era and the expectations of the society. All data on the Moroccan educational system derived from the supervising Ministry unless otherwise indicated.

Keywords: spatial analysis; inequality; educational system; Morocco. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C01 I24 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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