Details of the exemption of 16 regional directors at the Ministry of National Education after a “participatory evaluation”

In interaction with the “controversy” raised by the circulation of news regarding the decision of the Minister of National Education, First Education and Sports, Mohamed Saad Barrada, to exempt 16 regional directors of education, in the ranks of the components of the education and training system, and the general national public opinion, a source familiar with the ministry confirmed “the validity of the decision”, noting that “the opposite of the trader, it comes within an operation that included other decisions to open positions to compete and cover other vacancies.” “The minister was not unique to these decisions, but was taken based on a participatory evaluation.”

A source familiar with the Ministry of National Education, First Education and Sports confirmed to the electronic newspaper Hespress, “The validity of the decision to exempt 16 regional directors of education in the ministry, that in parallel there is a movement and intention to open positions for the mobilization,” adding that “this process comes according to the movement that is usually, and it is related to the vacancy of a number of positions, as well as the fact that a number of those concerned are no longer well in their positions.”

The authorized source added, “The decisions of exemption and mobility were not taken by the minister alone, but rather in coordination with the administrators of academies, and according to the evaluation conducted in this regard,” highlighting that “in the end, vacant positions must be filled”, that “there are regional directors who will move within the same academy.”

Regarding the health of the popular news, about “the association of exemption with the stumbling of the exempted people in downloading the Ministry’s projects, including the road map and” the leading school “, she emphasized that” the multiple causes, every regional director, there is a reason that prompted his exemption, “explaining that” the reasons include management problems, and other pedagogical. “

He stressed that “the evaluation of the performance of regional managers is not carried out by the minister alone, but rather the existing and inspected teams (the ministry’s inspectors) and the administrators of the academies,” insisting that “the vacant positions must be filled, and there are weak performance managers,” in his expression. She denied that any report of the Supreme Council of Accounts has any income in the exemption decisions.

A news communication issued by the Ministry, reached by Hespress, separated that the process relates to “strengthening educational, managed and governance capabilities in regional directorates”, noting that it includes “conducting the process of transferring 7 regional directors”, “covering vacant positions at the level of 11 regional directorates”, and “ending the duties of 16 regional directors”, with “opening the door to fill the position of regional manager) By 27 regional directorates (including 11 vacant positions mentioned).

The same source stated that these procedures come “within the framework of continuing to download the workshops of the education and training system reform, and in an effort to activate the provisions of Law, Frame No. 51.17 related to the education, training and scientific research system, and for road map programs and projects 2022-2026, and to reach its strategic goals, and to enhance the provision of regional directorates and raise their educational and management capabilities.”

It also comes, “to activate the results of the process of evaluating the educational and management performance of women, gentlemen and regional directors, and their ability to contribute to downloading reform programs and achieving its goals,” according to the communication, which emphasized that it also aims “in a framework of transparency and linking responsibility to account The frameworks for downloading repair programs, and reaching the expected educational results.

The exemptions, according to the sources of Hespress, confirmed the regional managers in both “Dakhla, Al -Ayoun, Guelmim, Khenifra, Khouribga, Azilal, Al -Nador, Al -Fahs/Anjar, Al -Madiq, Sidi Suleiman, Yusufiyah, Pullman, Al -Rashidiya, Ouarzazate, Safi and Tetouan.”

“Unprecedented exemptions”

An educational source was well informed that “the exemptions issued against 16 regional directors of national education in Morocco, despite their confirmation by informed official and union agencies, are still waiting for their issuance in official documents to raise every dress that accompanies this issue,” stressing that “the regional director in Tetouan alone has reached the mission of exemption so far.”

The informed source, in a statement to Hespress, stated that “these exemptions are related, according to the same authorities, with inspection data related to downloading a number of educational programs,” explaining that “there is a variation regarding the direction of these data; As some official authorities talk about the fact that the report submitted by a committee from the Supreme Council of Accounts in this context came positive, while others assert that the situation was disastrous.

The same source pointed out that “the number of exemptions that we are doing is unprecedented in the history of the Ministry of National Education, which once again confirms the necessity of issuing an explanatory communication in this regard”, asking in turn: “Is every separate dismissal related to the restructuring of the ministry or mainly to the retirement of the concerned person?”, “There is difficulty in resolving one of the two readings. You must be patient, as the exile may be appointed in other tasks. ”

He continued: “These exemptions raises the question of actors in the educational system, and the general public opinion as well, if they are caused by the perpetrators of those concerned. In the event that this is true, the reports or files that prove it must be disclosed. ”

“Union Fears”

Abdullah Aghimat, Secretary-General of the National University of Education-Democratic Orientation, conveyed “the surprise of the components of the educational system and the general national public opinion by exempting 16 regional directors in this way, without knowing the causes and backgrounds behind this,” stressing that these exemptions “require a clarification of public opinion if the exempt managers committed management errors that justify their exemption; In the absence of the reasons for this, the decision to exempt becomes a stipulation in the use of power.

In a statement to Hespress, Aghamita ruled out “the possibility of managing errors in downloading the Ministry’s projects, including the project for the leading school, behind the exemption of the concerned”, as he stressed that “this matter is said, but basically it must be evoked that, given that the regional directorates are external interests of regional academies, the regional directors of the Ministry of National Education are only two outlets.”

The union actor presented himself, “The possibility of the new minister wanted to cut off with the legacy of his predecessor,” saying: “Basically, these exemptions cannot be relied upon in pushing educational projects and accelerating their downloading; The problems of the educational system are greater than these matters. It suffers from the accumulations of major imbalances and abuses in the administrative and financial management, proven by the reports of the Ministry’s inspectors.