Educational and career guidance in Morocco : vision, plans and projects

Abstract

This chapter starts off by providing a brief outline of the educational system in Morocco, in order to help the reader better understand how educational and career guidance are seen as tools to address a number of inter-related challenges. The country’s comprehensive educational reform strategy, known as Vision 2030, pays specific attention to the area of career education and guidance, setting out a number of measures to promote it at all levels of the educational system, from primary schooling up to higher education. The developments mandated by the reform movement are seen within the context of the historical evolution of educational and career guidance that, starting shortly before the country’s independence, was mostly influenced by francophone approaches and models. The problems and difficulties encountered in implementing change in the way career guidance is conceptualised and delivered are described, with the chapter concluding by providing details of some of the more successful guidance-related projects and initiatives, whether home-grown or delivered in collaboration with international actors.