1 lecturer post at Oujda Faculty of Letters

Mohammed First University in Oujda, acting for the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Oujda, has opened a recruitment competition under regular recruitment, covering a single post in the specialty of Islamic studies. The competition carries the code C 44655/26. According to the published details, applications are submitted electronically through the higher education recruitment portal, the deadline for submission is 25 November 2026, and the competition is scheduled for 30 November 2026.

The position is for a maître de conférences, the academic rank normally rendered in English as lecturer, at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Oujda. This is an academic cadre which, within the organisation of Moroccan higher education, presupposes advanced training and a research record that a jury can assess. The announcement, however, does not set out the detailed eligibility conditions for this particular post, the list of documents required, or the marking arrangements for the tests.

Core facts of the competition

The post is offered through a single competition. The announcement contains no internal distribution of posts among several streams or specialties: the advertised number is one post, and the specialty named is Islamic studies.

Required specialty and the limits of the published information

Islamic studies

The announcement names Islamic studies as the sole specialty for the post. A candidate must therefore be able to demonstrate training in that field. The exact diplomas required, and the corresponding university streams, do not appear in the available details. It is therefore not possible, from this announcement alone, to state that one particular diploma would be accepted to the exclusion of another, or to assume automatic equivalence for a foreign diploma or a different training path.

It is important to separate what the announcement establishes from what it leaves unstated. What is established is the cadre, the specialty, the number of posts, the competition date and the electronic application channel. What is not stated includes, for example, age conditions or the reference date used to calculate age, exceptional cases or exemptions from preselection, the full list of documents, the details of the tests with their durations and coefficients, the eliminatory thresholds, and the rules governing the list of successful candidates and the waiting list.

What should not be inferred

The absence of a detail from the announcement does not amount to its negation. Silence on an age limit does not mean that applications are open without any age condition; the absence of a document list does not mean that applications can be filed without documents; and the absence of any mention of quotas does not mean that none exist. Candidates should therefore build their file on the complete official conditions published alongside the announcement, and should not treat this article as a substitute for them.

The online application process

The announcement states the submission method explicitly: online submission on the administration's website, with reference to the higher education recruitment portal. Applications are therefore not made by sending a paper file or by attending the university in person, but through the electronic channel provided for that purpose.

1. Check the specialty: confirm that the candidate's university path falls within Islamic studies and that the diploma obtained matches the published official conditions.
2. Assemble the documents: prepare legible digital copies of the officially required documents before opening the electronic form, so that the submission is not interrupted midway.
3. Submit through the portal: complete the electronic form on the recruitment portal, attach the required documents and check the accuracy of the information entered.
4. Final check: review the file before confirming and keep proof that the submission was completed within the deadline.

Timeline

Applications close on 25 November 2026, and the competition takes place on 30 November 2026. The interval between the two dates is relatively short, which makes advance preparation of the file practically necessary, particularly for candidates who need documents to be issued, translated or authenticated.

What is known about the tests and what remains unknown

The announcement gives the competition date without describing the nature of the tests. The available details do not show whether the competition includes a preselection based on the file, a written test, a presentation before the jury, or a combination of these. The durations, coefficients and the thresholds below which a candidate is eliminated are not published.

It follows that preparation should draw on the usual practice of university recruitment competitions in Morocco, while taking care not to treat that practice as an official requirement. It is useful for a candidate to prepare a summary of their training, a clear account of their academic path in Islamic studies, and to be able to present their research output in an orderly way, without the announcement being read as expressly imposing these elements.

Practical preparation checklist

The following is a non-official organisational suggestion intended to structure the work before the deadlines; it does not add to the published conditions.

• Review your university path and confirm that it belongs to the Islamic studies specialty.
• Prepare legible digital copies of the diplomas and personal documents required.
• Check the file formats accepted by the portal before submitting.
• Keep a copy of the confirmed form and of the submission acknowledgement.
• Organise a summary of your academic path and research activities in a presentable form.
• Avoid postponing submission to the final day, given possible demand on the portal.

Points to verify before submitting

Because the announcement does not publish the detailed conditions on required diplomas and additional documents, a candidate's first step is to obtain the full text of the official conditions attached to this competition and read it carefully. Particular attention should be paid to conditions that apply to a specific category of candidates rather than to all of them, such as diploma equivalence rules or rules specific to certain public employees, so that these are not generalised to every candidate.

It is also important to distinguish substantive conditions, concerning the diploma and specialty, from procedural conditions, concerning documents, the submission method and deadlines. A procedural error can lead to the exclusion of a file that meets the substantive conditions, and the reverse is also true. Reviewing the file twice, once from the angle of the specialty and once from the angle of documents and procedure, therefore remains a useful practical step.

In summary

The lecturer competition at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences in Oujda, in the specialty of Islamic studies, offers one post under regular recruitment at Mohammed First University. Applications are submitted online through the recruitment portal until 25 November 2026, with the competition scheduled for 30 November 2026. A serious candidate should rely on the complete official conditions, since this article presents and explains the details available in the announcement without adding conditions that were not published.