Morocco's Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Abdellatif Miraoui, called, Monday in Rabat, for the promotion of international mobility programs for Moroccan and British students and researchers, as a lever of cultural and intellectual convergence.
The Moroccan university is set to training researchers open to the international environment, in particular through the possibility of international joint supervision, he underlined during the 4th meeting of the Morocco-UK Higher Education Commission, held in Rabat.
Mr. Miraoui highlighted the issues of energy transition, climate change, digital transformation and health security in the deployment of the Moroccan university and the development of scientific research, in the light of the recommendations of the New development model.
From this perspective, he pleaded for increased cooperation between the two countries in terms of higher education and scientific research, calling on higher education establishments on both sides to promote their exchanges in terms of pedagogical approaches.
This fourth meeting of the Morocco-UK Commission for Higher Education focused on three main themes related to partnerships in the field of scientific research, governance and quality assurance, namely the internationalization of higher education, common priorities and the development of strategies defined by the organizations of the two countries.
The director of the British Council Morocco, Tony Reilly, for his part said that the meeting is an opportunity to celebrate the partnership between the two countries in the field of higher education, while addressing the ambitions to be implemented in the future.
Recalling the inaugural meeting of UK-Morocco Higher Education held in London in January 2020, Mr Reilly called for increased research collaboration between the two countries and more resources to be deployed to achieve this end.
He also stressed the need to encourage British universities to establish partnerships in Morocco, in order to stimulate the sharing of experiences, expertise and academic exchanges.
For his part, the special envoy of the British Prime Minister, in charge of trade with Morocco, Andrew Morrison, recalled the historical dimension and the place of choice of Al Quaraouiyine University in Fez as the oldest university in the world.
The British official also discussed the various means of promoting relations between the two countries in the sector of higher education and academic research, taking advantage of the new opportunities that are offered in terms of university collaboration.
This meeting, initiated by the British embassy in Rabat and the British Council Morocco and marked by the participation of several academic leaders and representatives of higher education institutions in Morocco and the United Kingdom, takes place following the third meeting of the commission held in Kenitra in March 2021.
The Morocco-UK Commission for Higher Education seeks to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the academic and scientific fields with a view to raising the relationship in this sector into a strategic partnership.
