Rabat
The history of higher education in Morocco dates back to the creation of the first higher research institute during the protectorate, in 1920: the Cherifian Scientific Institute, which later became the Scientific Institute. Paradoxically, the first research carried out in Morocco within the framework of this Institute, well before the Human and Social Sciences, focused mainly on scientific disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, geology, oceanography and 'anthropology… The same year then saw the establishment of the Institute of Higher Moroccan Studies (IHEM) whose mission was to promote and propagate knowledge of the Arabic and Berber languages, geography, history, ethnography and of Moroccan civilization. The ancestor of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences was born. Much later, in 1953, the Center for Higher Scientific Studies was inaugurated, which would become the first Faculty of Sciences in Morocco. These three establishments thus constituted the ground and the cradle at the base of the construction of the first modern university of Morocco. Thus in 1957, at the dawn of the country's independence, and in a spirit of modernization and emancipation of the nation, the Mohammed V University was born. From then on, it will assume the role of challenge to train the first executives of independent Morocco and to propel the economic and social development of the country. This institution has now largely justified its reputation by accumulating more than half a century of experience during which high personalities of the State were trained in all the major disciplinary fields: Letters and Human Sciences, Legal Sciences, Economics and Social, Exact Sciences, Engineering Sciences and Medical Sciences. In addition, as dean of modern Moroccan universities and within the framework of the national policy of regionalization and decentralization of higher education establishments, she initiated the creation and supervision of many other universities in different regions of Morocco. by creating several centers, first in Casablanca and Fez, which subsequently became independent universities. Over the years, the university has gradually enriched its faculty and has seen the number of its students increase considerably. This ever-increasing influx of high school graduates necessitated the split of the university in two in 1992: the Mohammed V-Agdal University and the Mohammed V-Souissi University. This long-contested and decried outburst generated two universities that were incomplete in disciplinary terms and which, since then, have operated with their backs turned. This state of affairs put an end to the harmony which reigned within the single university and disrupted the synergy which united the teachers of the different establishments by isolating the medical sciences within the Mohammed V-Souissi University which, from in fact, was cut off from the disciplines of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences, Exact sciences and Engineering sciences. Faced with such a dislocated university landscape, and to meet the growing demand from students, Mohammed V-Souissi University subsequently reacted by creating an engineering school and two Faculties of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences, one in Rabat and the other in Salé. Other establishments then emerged on both sides within the two universities, the most recent of which are the IEHL which dates back to 2002 and the annex of the UM5A in Abu Dhabi. The ENS and ENSET, which already existed since the 1980s, respectively joined the Universities Mohammed V Souissi and Agdal in 2010 and 2011. Mohammed V-Souissi University subsequently reacted by creating an engineering school and two Faculties of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences, one in Rabat and the other in Salé. Other establishments then emerged on both sides within the two universities, the most recent of which are the IEHL which dates back to 2002 and the annex of the UM5A in Abu Dhabi. The ENS and ENSET, which already existed since the 1980s, respectively joined the Universities Mohammed V Souissi and Agdal in 2010 and 2011. Mohammed V-Souissi University subsequently reacted by creating an engineering school and two Faculties of Legal, Economic and Social Sciences, one in Rabat and the other in Salé. Other establishments then emerged on both sides within the two universities, the most recent of which are the IEHL which dates back to 2002 and the annex of the UM5A in Abu Dhabi. The ENS and ENSET, which already existed since the 1980s, respectively joined the Universities Mohammed V Souissi and Agdal in 2010 and 2011.
School Director: Prof. Mohammed RHACHI
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