King Mohammed VI launched the City of Jobs and Skills (CMC) on Tuesday in the town of Tamesna for the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra area, a new-generation vocational training institution committed to quality and innovation.
The Rabat-Salé-Kénitra CMC is part of a larger scheme to construct 12 CMCs around the Kingdom, with a total expenditure of 4.4 Blm MAD.
It demonstrates the sovereign’s particular interest in vocational training as a strategic tool for economic competitiveness and a potential path for young people’s professional integration.
It was executed by the Office for Training and Employment Promotion (OFPPT) in accordance with royal directives and the new roadmap for the development of vocational training, which utilizes new data along with pedagogical and management criteria to ensure the quality of training, thereby facilitating a harmonious relationship between the training provided and the genuine needs of the labor market.
This is indeed the scenario with the industry cluster, which was created as an educational factory and provides ten distinct specializations in the Quality, Health, Safety, and Environment (QHSE) cluster: industrial, electrical, mechanical, and automotive engineering, tourism, agriculture, management, nursery and housing, and artificial intelligence.
The new Center features an internship campus with 700 beds and dormitories, a restaurant, lobby, multiple meeting rooms, and a sports complex–built on a ten-hectare site with a capacity of 3,560 training seats–which will be expanded to 4.560 starting next year.
The Rabat-Salé-Kenitra CMC is the fourth CMC to serve youth in training, coming on the heels of its counterparts in Souss-Massa, the Eastern region, and Laayoune-Sakia-El Hamra, which all went live in the October/November 2022 timeframe.