Egypt's Ministry of Education and Technical Education has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japan's Yamaha Corporation to launch a pilot project introducing musical instruments into public schools, on the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9). Under the agreement, Yamaha will supply 100 public schools with instruments and train music teachers to integrate them into education programmes. Education Minister Mohamed Abdel Latif voiced hopes to expand the initiative to 1,000 schools in the near future to strengthen music education in government schools. He praised Yamaha's ongoing cooperation with Egyptian-Japanese schools, where the company has been training teachers to use the Japanese recorder and providing music content aligned with Japanese activity-based learning. The minister also discussed future collaboration with Yamaha through Egypt's Applied Technology Schools (ATS), which apply Japanese technical curricula under Japanese expert supervision, aiming to prepare students for employment in Japanese companies at home and abroad. Attribution: Amwal Al Ghad English Subediting: M. S. Salama
