Conseil supérieur de l’Education, la Formation et la Recherche Scientifique, Royaume du Maroc

It is currently confirmed that, in a country like Morocco, the unemployment rate increases with the level of qualification. The mismatch of the education and training system vis-à-vis the needs of businesses and the market in general is often highlighted as the main reason for unemployment of graduates. However, if this argument calls into question the external efficiency of the education and training system, it also questions the links with the economy and the capacity of the job market to accommodate higher education graduates.

The particularity of this evaluation is that it does not content itself with adopting a unilateral meaning of the adequacy training employment formula which situates the problem at the level of the training deficits, it rather calls into question the trajectories of the graduates, at the level of training and the capacity of the labor market. We cannot talk about graduates’ training without dealing with the intrinsic determinants that relate to the socio-economic characteristics of the graduate, to their trajectory, to the overall determinants of the job offers and to the market’s structure.