Minister of Education and Technical Education Reda Hegazi on Sunday met with National Press Authority (NPA) chairman Abdel Sadeq el-Shorbagy and a group of media professionals and journalists.
The meeting, organised by the NPA, covered the latest developments in education.
Hegazi hailed the role of media professionals in boosting state institutions and raising awareness of projects undertaken by the ministry to develop pre-university education.
The minister spoke of clear-cut plans to upgrade syllabuses and train teachers in the new education system.
The media are major partners in supporting the development of education in Egypt, the minister said, stressing the importance dialogue between the ministry and the public.
The minister went on to say that developing education goes on in line with the state’s Vision 2030.
The development of education is inevitable in light of the fourth and fifth industrial revolutions and digital transformation, Hegazi said.
The minister told the meeting that President Abdel Fattah El Sisihad given directions to maintain ministry effortsin line with the comprehensive development.
The ministry attaches great importance totraining of teachers on a variety of targeted programmes through the Professional Academy for Teachers, Hegazi said.
The return of students to school is a strategic goal because it has an important social role in building the student’s personality, he said.
He noted that this is achieved by paying more attention to technology and integration into the academic programmes and school activities so that students acquire more skills and knowledge.
With regard to the curricula, the minister stressed that they will help students to think critically, manage and obtain knowledge in light of the digital transformation.
Some modifications were made to the curriculum for the fourth year primary for the new school year 2022-2023 to fit the timescale, and in line with the achievement of learning outcomes.
The minister touched on the existing expansions in the Egyptian-Japanese schools project. He said that the state aims to increase number of beneficiaries from this kind of education nationwide, and to implement tokatsu activities, which focus on creativity and thinking activities in all schools that apply the new curricula.
Hegazi talked about the technical education development plan to update curricula to suit the labour market.
Forty applied technology schools have been established across the country and the number is on increase, he said.
Applied technology schools are model schools for technical education, working to apply international standards in teaching and training methods, he added.
