Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi Sunday stressed the importance of focusing on the quality of education and keeping pace with the latest advancements in programming and Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies making them available to students in line with international standards.
President Sisi emphasized exerting maximum effort to raise the scientific and professional standards of technical education graduates in order to meet the growing needs of the labour market.
The president made the remarks during a meeting with Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli and Minister of Education and Technical Education Mohamed Abdel Latif.
The meeting addressed a number of files related to the Ministry of Education and Technical Education, within the framework of the State’s efforts to improve the quality of education, according to Presidential Spokesman Mohamed el-Shennawy.
The minister of education reviewed the Ministry’s efforts to introduce modern technology into school curricula by teaching programming and artificial intelligence in cooperation with Japan, as one of the world’s leading countries in this field.
The procedures for distributing tablets to technical education students were also reviewed, along with the teaching of programming and AI curricula and efforts to transform technical education in order to meet global standards, through cooperation with several countries, foremost among them Italy.
It was agreed to develop 103 technical schools to begin operating at the beginning of the next academic year, in addition to negotiations with the British side to establish 100 new technical schools.
The meeting also reviewed efforts to equip students with financial digitalization skills, as well as the executive status of the digital and financial literacy protocol signed between the Ministry and the Financial Regulatory Authority. The protocol aims to instill financial awareness in students from an early age, provide them with practical skills in money management and project financing, and protect them from unlawful financial practices.
In this context, the president underscored the need to unify the efforts of national institutions concerned with education and financial oversight to build a generation capable of contributing to a knowledge- and innovation-based digital economy, the spokesman said.
The meeting also addressed the Ministry’s efforts to develop students’ reading and writing skills. The President stressed the importance of mastering the Arabic language and encouraging and motivating students to do so. Preparations for holding the General Secondary Education Certificate exams for the 2025/2026 academic year were also reviewed, along with measures taken to govern the examination system and ensure its integrity.
The President emphasized the importance of applying strict penalties against anyone proven to have violated the system to ensure equal opportunities among students and maintain the credibility of results and the quality of educational outcomes.
Also enhancing human resource efficiency and reviewed proposals to qualify and train school staff, beginning with 100 schools, in cooperation with a Japanese university, in addition to exploring areas of cooperation and partnerships with friendly countries in the fields of education and technical education, figured high during the meeting, the spokesman said.
