Education in Morocco: High Territorial Disparities and Severe Inequalities Constituting a Roadblock for Sustainable Development and Human Development

In less than 50 years, the Moroccan education system has reached an almost unmanageable saturation. In the aftermath of independence, the Moroccan public school was able to gradually integrate children from different socio-economic backgrounds. Despite the lack of material and human resources, the relative equality of opportunity allowed the sons of workers and poor peasants to reach the highest steps of the podium. At the dawn of the 3rd millennium, although almost all Moroccan children can enroll in the first year of primary school, only a lucky few have the possibility of finishing higher education and finding a decent work. The bankruptcy of our educational system has become a tautology among the simple citizen as among the highest authority of the country. The Moroccan education system is leaning more and more towards teaching that loses its quality, encouraging school drop-out, cultivating inequity in knowledge, training with a little chance of employment and favoring an inherited social ascent which reinforces the poverty trap. Beyond the acquisition of knowledge, inequalities in education constitute multidimensional and multi-scale barriers affecting health, employment, income, human and technological development, and well-being at all levels: individual, family and societal. The huge territorial disparity in education between regions, provinces or municipalities of the same country is also unacceptable.