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Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Morocco

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Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is an Arab, Islamic, and African country. It is located in the North West of Africa with the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the West. It shares land borders with Algeria in the East and Mauritania in the South. Its population is 34.8 million in 2017 (HCP 2018), and its official languages are Arabic and Berber. Morocco became an independent nation from French occupation in March 1956.

Higher Education System Development

Morocco’s higher education is diversified both in programs it offers as well as languages of instruction, with Arabic, French, and English languages being main languages used for delivering content.

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the Moroccan higher education system was mainly traditional in the sense that it delivered studies on Islamic religion and theology as well as standard and classical Arabic language and literature. In fact, Morocco has the oldest existing, continually operating...

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  1. Department of Strategies and Information System, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Hassan, Morocco

    Redouane Assad

  2. Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan

    Ali Ait Si Mhamed

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  2. Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

    Patricio Langa

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Assad, R., Ait Si Mhamed, A. (2019). Higher Education Systems and Institutions, Morocco. In: Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_462-1

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