Oxford Business Group - Morocco : International cooperation in higher education
London - Morocco is encouraging increased collaboration with foreign educational providers, with a number of international schools already in the pipeline, as part of an attempt to improve graduate employability while expanding access to quality higher education, says the Oxford Business Group.
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The British think-tank cites, in this context, the signing of a handful of agreements with France for the establishment of new universities, such as the Ecole Centrale de Casablanca, expected to open by September 2014, adopting the model of one of France's top-flight engineering universities.
It also reports that plans are also under way to establish a Mediterranean Institute for Logistics and Transport in Tangiers, in collaboration with French Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées while a school of architecture is to be integrated into the International University of Rabat (Université Internationale de Rabat, UIR).
To mobilise funding and attract investors, a number of institutions are being developed under public-private partnerships (PPPs), notes the group, adding these include the UIR, a partnership between a group of Moroccan professors and the government-owned Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion, which today has 1,000 students and aims to attract 5000 by 2017.
Similarly, it goes on the International University of Casablanca (Université Internationale de Casablanca, UIC) is a PPP between Morocco's Société Maroc-Emirats Arabes Unis de Développement and US-based Laureate International Universities.
The group further underlines the existence of more than 200 privately owned institutions that offer higher education courses and certificates, with many providing double diplomas in partnership with foreign schools.
"These schools are receiving increased support in the form of funding and development aid", the source stressed, indicating that the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, will inject 7 million US Dollar into the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Management (HEM), a Moroccan private business school to finance HEM's plans to expand its presence beyond Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Fes and Tangiers, build new campuses in each of Fes and Oujda, and carry out upgrades at the Rabat campus.
Substantial opportunities exist in the provision of higher education, according to the think-tank which concludes that these institutions also have the opportunity to contribute to the economic development of Morocco by providing students with training that is demanded by the job market.
It also reports that plans are also under way to establish a Mediterranean Institute for Logistics and Transport in Tangiers, in collaboration with French Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées while a school of architecture is to be integrated into the International University of Rabat (Université Internationale de Rabat, UIR).
To mobilise funding and attract investors, a number of institutions are being developed under public-private partnerships (PPPs), notes the group, adding these include the UIR, a partnership between a group of Moroccan professors and the government-owned Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion, which today has 1,000 students and aims to attract 5000 by 2017.
Similarly, it goes on the International University of Casablanca (Université Internationale de Casablanca, UIC) is a PPP between Morocco's Société Maroc-Emirats Arabes Unis de Développement and US-based Laureate International Universities.
The group further underlines the existence of more than 200 privately owned institutions that offer higher education courses and certificates, with many providing double diplomas in partnership with foreign schools.
"These schools are receiving increased support in the form of funding and development aid", the source stressed, indicating that the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, will inject 7 million US Dollar into the Institut des Hautes Etudes de Management (HEM), a Moroccan private business school to finance HEM's plans to expand its presence beyond Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Fes and Tangiers, build new campuses in each of Fes and Oujda, and carry out upgrades at the Rabat campus.
Substantial opportunities exist in the provision of higher education, according to the think-tank which concludes that these institutions also have the opportunity to contribute to the economic development of Morocco by providing students with training that is demanded by the job market.
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