Miraoui’s agreement with his Romanian counterpart causes a stir
The situation of Moroccan students in Ukraine is still ambiguous. After resuming their distance learning courses a few weeks ago, these students are impatiently awaiting the rest of the events. Will they be able to integrate Moroccan universities or go to Romania to continue their studies, given that the Ministry of Higher Education has started talks with this Eastern European country to welcome them? Information received at MoroccoLatestNews UK a while ago and it seems to be confirmed.
Indeed, according to the Romanian press, the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Abdellatif Miraoui, succeeded in concluding a cooperation agreement with his Romanian counterpart, Sorin Cîmpeanu, during a visit In Romania. Thus, this Eastern European country would have agreed to offer 5,000 places available in its universities to Moroccan students repatriated from Ukraine.
Faced with this announcement from the Romanian side, the students of Ukraine do not seem very excited, because they do not know what to think about it, according to the testimonies collected by MoroccoLatestNews Fr.
” As long as there is no declaration from the Moroccan ministry, nothing is official for us. The announcement was made by the Romanian press. The Moroccan side is still silent on this subject, which leaves room for doubt.», confides AM, a 4th year medical student in Ukraine.
The 5,000 students in question registered on the platform set up by the Ministry of Higher Education at the very beginning of the process of repatriating Moroccan students from Ukraine. The goal is to identify the number of students concerned, their university levels or their specialty in order to integrate them later in Moroccan or other universities.
According to sources fromMoroccoLatestNews UK, the Minister of Higher Education, Abdelilah Miraoui, would have transmitted this list of students identified via the platform to his Romanian counterpart. These are in particular medical students, specify our sources.
Regarding the feelings of students from Ukraine about this announcement “non officialAccording to them, they see no inconvenience in integrating Romanian universities. But fears persist.
“Honestly, we did not expect an integration within the public faculties in Morocco. But we hoped to have the possibility of integrating private medical faculties at least», tells us AM
while studying in a private medical school in Morocco costs a fortune, our interlocutor tells us that after doing their calculations, Moroccan students have realized that they spend almost the same amount in Ukraine or in another European country only if they join a private faculty in Morocco.
But why not have filed their file within its private faculties? Asked about this, AM points out that several students have tried to do so, but they have been told that they have no information or directives on this subject at the moment.
“Moroccan students in Ukraine do not have any document justifying their course, in particular the certificate of schooling. Everything remained blocked in the universities in Ukraine, after the outbreak of the war. When students said they were threatened with expulsion by universities, it was because they asked to have their academic records complete. But the universities told them clearly that if they withdraw their file it is equal to an expulsion“, he explains. A problem that will also arise when these students want to join Romanian universities.
“We do not know how we are going to proceed to integrate ourselves into Romanian universities without files or papers. Everything is still blurry. We hope to have a reaction from the Ministry of Higher Education this week.“, concludes our interlocutor.
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