A Critical Analysis of the Governance of the Moroccan Education System in the Era of Online Education

Abstract

The Moroccan education system is faced with the difficulty of instituting good governance to improve the quality of academic services and pursue a sustainable sector performance. Unfortunately, the challenge has become more complicated with the adoption of online education as a response to the COVID-19 crisis. This chapter is primarily grounded on the tracks of improvement of the educational system governance by grounding on its literature (theoretical and empirical), clarifying the regulatory and institutional framework of the educational system, and presenting the stakes of the MASSAR system as well as the mechanism that it exerts in the approximation and the bringing together of the stakeholders. Finally, the authors give attention to the governance of the Moroccan education system in the era of online education. The results show that the educational governance is far from being completed and that the COVID-19 crisis has reinforced pre-existing inequalities, thus questioning the effectiveness of the governance system in the education sector.