Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi Saturday issued directives to maintain intensive work to enhance the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of university education in Egypt.
The president made the remarks during a meeting with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli and Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Ayman Ashour.
President Sisi followed up on the implementation of the state’s plans to improve the quality of university education and link it to the labor market and development needs, Presidential Spokesman Ahmed Fahmy said.
Minister Ashour expounded the state’s executive strategy for technological education, including the expansion of the establishment of technological universities to cover all governorates and the development of their systems to keep pace with the successive scientific development.
The President was also briefed on the government’s program to accommodate the rapid increase in the number of university students, as well as international students and the ongoing efforts in this regard to establish a city for international students to accommodate the increasing numbers.
He reviewed the developments to activate the Alliance and Development Initiative, which aims to strengthen alliances between the universities and industrial authorities, to set development plans from each governorate, based on linking and integrating the educational process with development needs.
The meeting also reviewed the developments of the Egyptian Knowledge Bank Initiative, with president Sisi giving directives to continue activating this initiative, so as to contribute to improving the classification of Egyptian universities, institutions and research centers internationally, and to ensure strengthening the knowledge economy and benefiting from the enormous potential of human capital in Egypt.
The meeting also touched on efforts to develop university hospitals, increase their numbers, provide educational and training programs at the highest levels, and offer modern therapeutic services.
The budget of university hospitals was reviewed, which has increased three-fold over the last 10 years to ensure the provision of the best levels of service to citizens.
President Sisi issued directives to continue intensive work to raise the quality, efficiency, and competitiveness of university education in Egypt, focus on the quality of the academic output, enhance its developmental component, and link it to economic and development needs.
The President also instructed to provide all support to the existing and new initiatives in the field of higher education, in light of the priority given to the education sector and in a way that reflects positively on achieving the state’s goal to enhance the scientific and cultural formation of the Egyptian human personality.
