The Sovereign followed detailed explanations on this 2010-2012 ambitious programme which provides for creating 120 new schools, extending 928 other institutions and setting up 74 dormitories.

  The programme aims to improve the efficiency of the national education system, in line with the goals of the Emergency Education Programme, which seeks to modernise the educational system, reorganize the schooling life and improve the quality of education.

  The Monarch also laid the foundation stone for the construction of a middle school and a dormitory in the commune of Jabal Lahbib, at a cost of nearly 15 million dirhams.

     Worth some 12.76 bln dirhams, the national school extension programme was launched last November. It is meant to set up 1246 schools and strengthen education through the construction of 4745 classrooms, the creation and expansion of 846 additional dormitories.