GESR "Take your innovation to the market "event" Education in Egypt"
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Mostafa El Khouly Technology Incubators Manager Education in Egypt Challenges and Opportunities
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Egypt’s education sector creates and serves the largest workforce in the Middle East and North Africa and is ripe with investment opportunities.32 % of Egyptians are under 15 years,9 % of GDP is spent on Education. Looking abroad, Egypt has seen how much the private sector can bring to educational development, from private education to public-private partnerships for K-12 schooling, from private university and technical/vocational education to corporate training programs
Transcript of GESR "Take your innovation to the market "event" Education in Egypt"
Mostafa El KhoulyTechnology Incubators Manager
Education in EgyptChallenges and Opportunities
Key Numbers
• 32 % of Egyptians are under 15 years• 9 % of GDP is spent on Education• 18 Million Students enrolled in pre-university
education• 1 Million enrolled in university education • More than 47000 Schools with around 450,000
classes• More than 380 faculties and institutes in 23 public
universities• 17 private university
Education Stakeholders
• Students• Parents• Teachers• Government• Schools• Universities • Private companies• NGO’s
Challenges
• Crowded classes – more schools needed• Low income means dropping out of school• Poor teachers quality and depending on
private tutoring• Curriculums that are outdated.• Teaching methods that focus on exams
Opportunities
• Adaptive Learning Mechanisms• Open Education Resources• Online Learning• Smart Classrooms• Parallel education
Success stories
- Online Education for Egyptian, Syrian and Saudi Curricula
- 9 Million views on youtube.com
- Online learning and better teaching experience
- Online education for alternate material (not standard curricula)
- Alternative material for explaining science
Success stories – International
Dr. Nashwa Ayoub
Chairman of Education Sector in Misr El Kheir Foundation.
Dr. Nashwa Ayoub had obtained her PHD in the business administration – Ain Shams University; she worked in the Dutch Project for a year in designing and implementing awareness water programs for women. She then worked in Care International foundation from 1996 till 2002 where she promoted in the terms of jobs till she worked as an educational and awareness consultant, she designed a manual for an awareness campaigns for the environment as the organization have worked with this manual for a long time.
Then she worked in educating females in slums areas till 2004 in ADEW organization where she designed a book about girl’s dreams, the book includes how to deal with the girls’s educational needs, Dr. Nashwa also joined the ERP program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), she worked as an educational consultant for Adults.
