The Minister of National Education, Preschool and Sports, Chakib Benmoussa and the Spanish Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Pilar AlegrÃa Continente, are currently visiting Morocco as part of the High Level Meeting Morocco- Spain, met this Thursday, February 2 in Rabat on various subjects concerning education and the prospects for cooperation.
One of the topics that were at the center of his talks, and the creation of bilingual sections of Spanish in the scientific field in some secondary schools in Morocco.
In detail, its sections, which will be introduced next year, will aim to promote the learning of the Spanish language in a progressive way, starting with the secondary school level with a view to extending this experience to the qualifying secondary level. , explained the Minister of National Education, Chakib Benmoussa, in a statement to the press.
Thus, the discussions with his Spanish counterpart focused on the promotion of the teaching of Arabic and Spanish languages in Spain and Morocco, with the creation of a working group to bring this project to fruition.
For her part, the Spanish Minister of Education, Pilar AlegrÃa Continente, welcomed this cooperation project on the creation of bilingual Spanish sections in the different regions of Morocco.
A project that will offer Moroccan students, according to the Spanish official, the possibility of studying scientific subjects in Spanish with a view to obtaining Spanish and Moroccan baccalaureates which will allow them to continue their higher education in Spain with perfect equality of opportunity.
” With the construction of an educational institution in Rabat, on land ceded by the Moroccan government, we hope to inaugurate in 2025 the most important Spanish educational institution abroad.“, she let know.
The 12th session of the Morocco-Spain High-Level Meeting, which is being held eight years after the last session of this institutional mechanism, is part of the strategic partnership and the new dynamics experienced by relations between the two Kingdoms more to the visit made last April by Pedro Sánchez to Morocco, at the invitation of King Mohammed VI.