Morocco’s Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation offered doctoral students “a series of theses that researchers should discuss”, which sparked a wave of “censorship and restriction” allegations before a “ministerial source” clarified the truth of this, according to the Moroccan media.
The Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Abdellatif Mirawi, called on university presidents to “prepare regulations that include research topics related to the preparation of doctoral theses,” according to the website.City of Nador “.
The Moroccan minister addressed a memorandum to the heads of university institutions in Morocco, in which he stressed that the themes of doctorates should be limited to responding to the priorities of economic and social development, and also serve the issues related to the structural reform that the Kingdom is witnessing. ”, According to the Moroccan website.
three tributaries
The minister recommended the adoption of three tributaries, which he considered “essential for the drafting of the lists of research topics presented in the competition for the drafting of doctoral theses”, according to the site “Moroccan depth“.
The first tributary concerns “the national priorities of economic and social development, the episodic and sectoral development plans and the new development model of the country”.
The second strand concerns “the results of the regional debates organized during the consultative phase of the National Plan to accelerate the transformation of the higher education, scientific research and innovation system”.
The third strand is embodied in the “strategic axes for research development, included in the university development project”, according to the same source.
Numerous university professors and researchers criticized the minister’s instructions and some considered them “censorship and a blatant violation of academic freedoms and restrictions on researchers’ freedom of choice and expression”.
Clarification
However, a ministerial source denied having ordered university presidents not to adopt research topics for a doctorate in political science, international law, international relations, foreign policy, diplomatic relations and security studies, according to the website.Expressed“.
The source said the ministry memorandum only identified priorities that are best to work on, as outlined in the development model report, but the freedom of teachers to choose any subject is guaranteed, according to the Hespress source.
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