The Moroccan library has been strengthened with a new book entitled “Teaching and Research in Economic Sciences in Moroccan Public Universities” by Idriss Karawi, a Moroccan academic and economist and president of the Open University of Dakhla, issued jointly by the French publishing house “L’HARMATTAN” and the Open University of Dakhla as part of the “Africa of Tomorrow” series. .
Throughout its nearly one hundred and seventy pages, the book monitors a set of facts related to the status of teaching and research in economic sciences in Morocco. The most prominent of which is “the lack of a common and coordinated approach among faculty members regarding the foundations on which the formation of economic elites is based.” The writer explained this matter by “the absence of a structure for institutional and unified tracking of the joint collective thinking of Moroccan economists regarding this problem at the national level.”
Regarding the current situation of teaching and research in this field, this new work monitored the development of the number of students enrolled in Moroccan public universities in the Economic Sciences Division, this number which increased in the year 2020 by more than 39 times the number observed in 1976, recording the increase in the attractiveness of this division over the years. The latter attracts female students, whose number has increased more than 138 times between the aforementioned two years.
Likewise, the writer monitored the development of the number of graduates in the Economic Sciences Department, which reached more than 25 thousand students during the year 2020. While the number of research professors in the aforementioned department in the public higher education sector reached more than 1,290 during the same year, he pointed out that the production of economic literature also witnessed a positive development, despite the decline in annual production between the years 2000 and 2020 from 32 to 25 books annually.
On the other hand, the results of a survey included in the book, which targeted a sample of students graduating from public universities in the Economic Sciences Division, revealed “the inability of new generations of graduates to mention the names of ten economists who provided additional value to their academic path,” indicating that “comparing suggestions Younger and older graduates of Moroccan public universities, regardless of the type of degree (bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate), show that they are truly ignorant of the literature published by economists in their country.”
In his review of the most prominent major problems that obstructed teaching and research throughout the course of training, the study data revealed a group of problems; The most important of which are “the quality of training and the framing of end-of-study projects and dissertations,” the absence of applied lessons, and the incompatibility of training with the needs of the labor market, in addition to the problem of languages and the absence of partnerships with foreign universities and actors in the economic and social fields at the national level.
In this regard, the book added that “the direct actors in the national system of teaching and research in economic sciences in Moroccan public universities share a clear, closely related and forward-looking vision of the apparent and hidden aspects of this crucial problem, in order to produce and reproduce new generations of economic researchers recognized for their excellence.”
Karawi pointed to a number of profound defects and challenges that hinder enabling Moroccan public universities to carry out their tasks of producing scientific elites, building competencies, and stimulating the dynamism of innovation. Such as “the disjointed nature of teaching and research in the economic sciences, the presence of “isolated” researchers and research that has no connection to the economic, societal and territorial reality, then the extreme weakness of funding directed to research, significant funding allocated to education without producing returns, and the absence of a comprehensive, integrated and strengthened national media system. With unified institutional leadership.”
In order to improve the system of teaching and research in economic sciences at the Moroccan university, the author recommended rehabilitating, mobilizing and motivating professors, and reconsidering the tasks assigned to the school and the approaches adopted to encourage academic research, involving economic researchers, and consolidating the culture of teaching and research in territorial fields, while giving students a role. greater in this context.
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2024-05-05 08:57:07
