Morocco: English teaching to be generalized from the start of secondary school in 2025 | TV5MONDE

Morocco is moving to gradually generalize the teaching of the English language from the first year of college in the public service to promote linguistic diversity, we learned from the ministry on Friday. Education National.

The move also aims to establish “equal opportunities” between public schools and private institutions where Shakespeare’s language is taught from primary school onwards, the ministry’s program director Mohammad Jerowali told AFP.

Currently, English is taught from the third year of public college, but the ministry plans to gradually expand its teaching to 10% of first-year students and 50% of second-year college students from next academic year, Ms. Zerouali said. .

A generalization of learning English to all public colleges is planned for the beginning of the 2025-2026 academic year.

This project aims to establish “Linguistic Pluralism in a Progressive and Balanced Way”, underlines the circular of national education obtained by AFP. French is the most widely spoken foreign language in Morocco today.

The reform is part of a broader plan to reform school curricula related to Moroccan students’ learning disabilities, especially in languages ​​(including Arabic), according to a report by the High Council of Education, a public advisory body, in 2021.

It is thus intended “To realize the values ​​of equity and equal opportunities”Mr. Zerouali says.

The structural deficiencies affecting Moroccan public schools push many families, even the least affluent, to entrust their children to private schools or foreign institutions where English is taught from an early age.

Public education is like that “A Machine for Reproducing Inequalities in Society”The same statement was cautionary.

The Ministry of Education also wants to review the French teaching programs he has learned since primary school. “To strengthen students’ skills” In Molière’s language, Mr. Added Zerouali.

In 2019, Morocco adopted a law to teach science subjects in French instead of Arabic in middle school, prompting strong protests from Islamist parties.