The education systems and training of human capital in the Maghreb countries: situation and outlook

The purpose of this paper is to present and analyze the education systems in the maghreb countries (algeria, morocco, tunisia), under the light of human capital. the weight of human capital in economic and social development of nations is indeed clearly established. all countries have tried and are still trying to improve the performance of their educational systems and research / innovation, with mixed results as it’s shown with the situation of the central maghreb countries. the hypothesis of this work is implicit: countries that do not improve the quality of training of their human resources, cannot aspire to economic performance. our methodology of analysis, hypothetico-deductive nature, will lead us to approach analytically, successively 3 points: 1. the concepts and theoretical foundations of human capital and training 2. the new international standard qualifying training-education systems and the cognitive advantage 3. the efficiency of educational systems in the countries of maghreb