While the whole of Morocco, indeed the world, has shown unwavering support for Moroccan students in Ukraine stranded in the middle of a war, students in Moroccan faculties refuse to share their spaces with them. Point.
Thousands were stranded in Ukraine after the outbreak of war, before Moroccan authorities rushed special flights to neighboring countries to repatriate them.
The number of Moroccan students in Ukraine amounts to some 10,000 students. Most are studying medicine, engineering, architecture or pharmacy. After the outbreak of war, they were forced to leave everything in their host country, including their studies and administrative and school documents, to save their skin.
Once back in Morocco, the Ministry of Higher Education has set up a platform for their census, according to their level and training. An initiative that will allow them to resume, why not in the future, their studies in Moroccan faculties until the situation calms down in Ukraine and they can return to their universities there.
Nevertheless, this responsiveness of the ministry, applauded by all, was not to the liking of students in Morocco, especially medical students. According to our sources, the latter apparently refused, during a vote at the Faculty of Medicine of Oujda, the integration of students from Ukraine into public and private medical faculties in Morocco.
Indeed, the National Commission of Students in Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy held a general meeting, Monday, March 14, in all the faculties of the Kingdom, in order to ” discuss new developments in the field of health training in Morocco “.
According to videos reaching MoroccoLatestNews UK of the faculty of medicine of Oujda, students were called upon during this general assembly to vote for or against the integration of students from Ukraine into private and public medical faculties in Morocco. The vote ended with a ” no almost general, as the videos show.
A reaction and a grudge which has not gone unnoticed by Moroccan students in Ukraine, still traumatized by the horrors they have seen and experienced in their host country.
After hearing about this reaction, one of the dental students from Ukraine, AM expressed to MoroccoLatestNews UK her “understanding of the situation of medical students in Morocco, and the difficulties they encounter during their training (overcrowding, lack of training, lack of training grounds, etc.).
That said, this future dentist believes that ” the current situation of students in Ukraine, where everyone showed solidarity with refugees and students trying to find a solution for them to continue their studies, we were surprised to see that during the general assembly held by the commission on Monday, most were against our integration into the faculties. And these same the subject that has recently been circulating among medical students“, he tells us.
According to our interlocutor, this decision of integration of the students of Ukraine within the Moroccan faculties, or not, does not concern the students and is not in their hand. It is up to the state and the supervisory ministry or even the deans of the faculties to decide on this point.“.
While telling us that most Ukrainian universities have started to provide courses remotely, AM believes that for the moment, the question of integrating Ukrainian students into Moroccan faculties is just a debate and nothing has happened. yet been decided or acted upon.
But what has affected the students of Ukraine the most, “ this is the resentment shown by his students and future doctors “who comes back according to him” to the treatment to which they are entitled within their faculties and the pressure which they undergo“, adding that “cIt is not a behavior that is expected of a future doctor supposed to defend and treat the populations, ” he concluded.
Solicited by MoroccoLatestNews UK on this subject, Hamza Hajji, coordinator of the National Commission of Students in Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy, who called for the general assembly, told us in a first ” that there was no vote or anything. The meeting was held for information purposes“.
Unaware of the videos circulating that show students (which most of our sources say are medical students) voting against the integration of students from Ukraine, Hamza Hajji tells us ” that a meeting of the Commission will take place as soon as possible to study this situation, and come out with conclusions “before specifying” that the assembly which took place at the faculty of medicine of Rabat on Monday did not know any vote in this direction“.
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