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The first comprehensive educational center in Egypt dedicated to children with special educational needs and disabilities will be established soon.
Egypt’s adoption of the MPI framework is expected to significantly reshape its poverty reduction strategies. Sabina Alkire, Director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), noted that the MPI can transform social policy by providing detailed, multidimensional data on critical issues such as education, healthcare, and living standards.
The Ministry of Planning’s focus for this fiscal year includes integrating public investments, local resources, and international partnerships to foster economic and social development, particularly through significant investments in education.
The statement was made by Acting UNICEF Representative in Egypt Nathalie Meyer during a discussion at WUF 12.
Egyptian Minister of Planning, Economic Development and International Cooperation Rania el Mashat said that 42 percent of the public investments of the plan of the current fiscal year is spent on human and social development which includes sector of education.
The ministries of Industry and the Higher Education held meetings to discuss maximizing the role of scientific research in advancing the industrial and transportation sectors.
Minister of Education and Technical Education Mohamed Abdellatif hailed the outstanding cooperation between Egypt and Japan, especially in pre-university education.
Egypt and France expand cooperation with major development projects across key sectors.
He expressed his gratitude to the government for supporting the partnership with Texas Medical University during the university's foundation.
This decision aligns with directives to prioritize and address the teacher shortage crisis in educational directorates. It was communicated to the educational directorates in a letter from the Ministry of Education and Technical Education.
The Al Azhar Grand Imam emphasized the risks of embracing "modern educational systems and methods" that may covertly aim to erode the Arab and religious identity. He highlighted the importance of being vigilant against attempts to subvert Arab education for cultural invasion agendas. He called for schools to reclaim their esteemed role, ensuring curricula foster the development of youth who uphold religious and moral values.
Those will be located at the Family and Childhood Development Centers.
Additional funding is urgently needed to scale up access to safe inclusive, equitable quality education for refugees as well as vulnerable host community children.
Those schools teach the new Egyptian curriculum dubbed "2.0", and Japan's Tokkatsu system.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Immigration and Egyptian Expats Badr Abdelatty received Thursday his Somali counterpart Ahmed Moalem.
The minister said that the car is produced in Egypt with a manufacturing rate of 75 percent, adding that the price of the car is affordable for young people, not exceeding 150 to 180 thousand pounds.
The Egyptian government targets to allocate 1.8 percent of GDP for spendings on research and development (for the Ministry of Higher Education) in 2030, compared to about 1.2 percent in the current fiscal year 2024/2025.
100 feddans have been allocated for that purpose.
On July 13, 2024, Egypt’s new Minister of Education Mohamed Abdel Latif revealed that the most prominent problems facing the education system in Egypt are the student density in classes, the shortage of teachers.
Moreover, the Minister of Education addressed another issue related to the study curricula, saying that the most prominent problem of governmental high schools is that 32 subjects are studied. In comparison, only 16 subjects are studied in international schools.
