Minister Abdellatif Miraoui denies closing down the door in front of PhD holders staffers
Mr. Abdellatif Miraoui, Minister of Higher Education and Innovation has denied closing down the door of following up studies at universities in front of PhD- holders staffers, confirming that his talks about his department envisaging towards amending criteria to have access to Moroccan universities, “does not mean the elimination of staffers to have the right to compete for positions the Ministry allocates every year according to universities’ needs”.
Minister of Higher Education has disclosed in a press statement about the elaboration of new concept to have access to teaching at universities which aims at training a new generation of executives and doctors according to international criteria; and this is to enhance the capacity of the educational system to accept increasing demand for university education and anticipate expected shortage in the coming years due to staffers retirement.
Minister Miraoui has clarified that starting from next academic year, “there will be reviewing of conditions, criteria and recruitment rules at universities, through new bases that are compatible with requirements of university reform”, pointing out that “internationally qualified doctors will be hired including skilled Moroccans from abroad, with the necessity of idealistic use of positions afforded to public administration doctors.
Starting from the next academic year, Minister of Higher Education has added, that there will be reduction of transformed positions that are afforded to staffers from public administration, PhD holders, in exchange of increasing financial positions for doctors from outside public administration staffers.
Minister Miraoui has outlined that there is some kind of “injustice” vis-à-vis offering the opportunity to non-staffers doctors to teach at universities, due to the fact that staffers have got the right to compete for normal and transformed positions at the same time, on the opposite of non-staffers doctors, “the fact which minimizes chances for large factions of PhD holders in being hired at universities”.
