Minister of Economic Integration, Small Enterprises, Employment and Competencies, Mr. Youness Sekkouri has announced that 40 thousand trainees at OFPPT out of 676 thousand are benefiting from scholarships with a budget envelope worth MAD 150 million.
Minister Sekkouri made clear last Monday during an oral question session at the House of Representatives, that the number of scholarships is insufficient and the government is making big efforts to increase their number.
Minister Sekkouri has said that the big challenge is to include trainees of OFPPT non-holders of Baccalaureate certificates to become beneficiaries of scholarships, including those who have dropped out of secondary school.
The government official has reaffirmed that those students are in bad need of assistance so that they will pursue their vocational training to be eligible to have access to job market.