Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingenieurs: The Pride of Moroccans (video)

The Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs (Arabic: المدرسة المحمدية للمهندسين‎, abbreviated EMI) is a School of Engineering in Rabat, Morocco. EMI was founded in 1959 by the King Mohammed V as Moroccan’s first polytechnic, it’s the largest institution of higher education in technology and one of the leading technical schools in Morocco.
EMI became in 1981 under the order of the king Hassan II the first school combining academic and military education. Following the establishment of polytechnical schools in many European countries the early years of the 19th century, often based on the model of École Polytechnique in Paris in 1794. 



Schools in Morocco (video)

Boarding schools give Moroccan girls a chance to learn

Over the past few decades in Morocco, the school dropout rate for girls from rural areas has been on the increase due to a virtal lack of high schools in less-densely populated areas of the country. But a boarding school project launched by authorities in 2000 to tackle the problem now boasts more than 300 new schools.