Academics protest plan to give ministry more control
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“The new draft law establishes a contracting system to regulate the relationship between professors and their university, subjecting it to the logic of the market and privatisation in a way that undermines the principle of academic freedom and the independence of scholars,” said Jaouad Rabaa, a member of the National Office for the independent Karama (‘Dignity’) Coordination of Research Professors, in a phone call.
Rabaa, a professor of political science and constitutional law at the University of Ibn Zohr in Agadir, explained that the draft law granted “supreme” authority to the university’s administrative body and the ministry to control teachers’ financial benefits and work privileges. The bill also grants the ministry of higher education powers to amend the curricula and intervene in research professors’ work, says Rabaa.
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Kulna in Yeruham, Israel in 2019 (Photo by Omar Oualili)
The 10th of December 2020 is now a memorable day for many Moroccans and Israelis alike. On that day, then-President of the United States of America, Donald Trump made an important announcement. He declared on his official Twitter account that both America’s strategic allies, Morocco and Israel, will establish full diplomatic relations. For Moroccans, this resumption of official contacts between Morocco and Israel also came with the US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over its Sahara.
Binter has announced it will open new routes to Europe starting in July.
The company will open new routes to Lille, Marseille and Toulouse in France as well as Turin and Venice in Italy.
The airline is also starting a new domestic route to Reus (Tarragona).
The new routes will be operated with its new Embraer E195-E2 aircraft.
18 direct weekly flights between the Canary Islands and new European destinations
Binter has scheduled 18 flights per week with new European destinations, so most will have connections two days a week.
In the case of France, connections to Lille will be on Mondays and Thursdays departing at 10.45 am from Gran Canaria and return at 16:40, with arrival time in the Canary Islands at 20.00 hours. Toulouse will be linked on Tuesdays and Saturdays with a very similar schedule, departing at 10.30 hours on Tuesdays and at 11.00 on Saturdays from the Canary Islands and return at 15.45 hours, 16.15 in the case of Saturdays. With regard to the route with Marseil
In Rabat, Morocco, contract teachers continue to mount pressure on authorities to give them permanent employment status.
In addition to this, the teachers have for weeks been campaigning for integration with the national civil service.
They have embarked on strikes and protests, and the silence of authorities is infuriating them.
On Wednesday, one of such protests led to a clash between the teachers, their supporters and the Moroccan police.
Despite a ban on gatherings over the coronavirus, the teachers would have none of it. Unfortunately, you can see the repression that we are suffering today in the face of the silence of from Ministry which refuses to dialogue with us. They have recently brought in the program for professional qualification which we completely reject because we want to be under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and not of the academies , said Taha Wadani, a teacher from Salé.