Schoolbook distribution problems put Morocco’s education minister under parliamentary scrutiny

As Morocco approaches the start of the 2026-2027 school year, a parliamentary question has brought the country’s schoolbook shortages and distribution problems back into focus.

Nadia Tahami, a parliamentarian from the Progress and Socialism group in the House of Representatives, questioned National Education, Preschool and Sports Minister Mohamed Saad Berrada about what she described as dysfunction in the schoolbook market and an ongoing distribution crisis.

Tahami pointed to shortages of several titles and disruptions in supply, particularly materials for the country’s pioneering schools. She said the problems could create confusion and affect the normal start of the academic year.

She also referred to an earlier opinion from Morocco’s Competition Council on competition in the schoolbook market, identified as opinion R/2/23. The council diagnosed structural and competitive weaknesses, including monopoly situations. Tahami said the council had considered the market completely closed at its upstream stage, producing effective monopolies and concentrated control.