Rabat, Aug. 3 -- The House of Councilors, the 120-member upper house of Morocco's parliament, has approved the newly adopted Draft Law 51.17 , definitely putting to rest nationwide debates about the implications of that law for the future of Moroccan education.

The draft law has widely been opposed in Moroccan conservative circles. One MP of the ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) resigned after Parliament adopted the bill. To most PDJ supporters, the bill feels like a dangerous deviation from the party's traditional nationalist and Islamist foundational pillars.

Critics of the bill, among them former Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, feared that the adoption of French as the principal medium of instruction for scientific subje...