As we speak, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Prime Minister Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Minister of Increased Training and Scientific Analysis Dr. Ayman Ashour, and Minister of Training and Technical Training Mr. Mohamed Abdel Latif.
The Spokesman for the Presidency, Ambassador Mohamed El Shennawy, acknowledged that the assembly was a part of the President’s follow-up on a number of points overseen by the Ministries of Increased Training and Scientific Analysis, and Training and Technical Training.
The 2 ministers reviewed coordination concerning the baccalaureate system.
The minister of upper training and scientific analysis reviewed the rise within the variety of college students enrolled within the fields of Synthetic Intelligence, digitization, pc science, and know-how at Egyptian universities for the tutorial yr 2024/2025. The variety of college students in these fields has elevated by 40% in comparison with the tutorial yr 2023/2024.
The minister of upper training and scientific analysis additionally mentioned the institution of the Egyptian Academy of Mathematical Sciences to incorporate excellent and gifted college students.
President El-Sisi gave directives to offer precedence to those specializations, in gentle of the job market’s want for them and their connection to technological development, which is taken into account a key driving drive for progress in any nation.
The minister of upper training stated as a part of internationalizing and exporting Egyptian training, agreements have been made to open branches of Egyptian universities overseas in cooperation with the non-public sector, with out the state bearing any price. He added by the tutorial yr 2025/2026, 10 new nationwide universities can be launched into the Egyptian increased training system, bringing the overall variety of nationwide universities in Egypt to 30.
He famous that the overall variety of universities in Egypt at present stands at 116 (public, non-public, nationwide, technological, and overseas), together with 1,079 colleges.
President El-Sisi emphasised that the Egyptian college branches, together with nationwide ones, be outfitted in keeping with worldwide requirements and to draw overseas college students and pressured that the colleges ought to embody scientific and sensible specializations associated to know-how, AI, digitization, and engineering.
The assembly additionally touched on the chief measures regarding coordination and acceptance at universities and institutes for the tutorial yr 2024/2025. This consists of the variety of college students and their distribution amongst universities, whether or not public, nationwide, non-public, or overseas, along with technical and technological institutes.
The assembly mentioned efforts to extend the variety of worldwide college students at Egyptian universities. The President gave directives to proceed efforts to show Egypt into a gorgeous vacation spot for distinguished increased training and worldwide college students.
President El-Sisi emphasised the significance of focusing efforts to show the outputs of scientific analysis into merchandise of financial worth to contribute to supporting the nationwide economic system. The President affirmed the significance of enhancing innovation and entrepreneurship and linking scientific analysis to improvement plans and the wants of society. That is along with addressing the scarcity of educational competencies and stopping mind drain, thus selling Egypt’s place as a number one vacation spot within the discipline of training.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
