Participants in Building Resilient Health Systems in the Middle East, a webinar organised by Roche, the Swiss-based global pharmaceuticals and diagnostics company, focused on the challenges to building sustainable healthcare systems posed by the (...)
The Ministry of Health is seeking to stay on track in its plan to implement the new universal health insurance system (UHI), recently announcing it would soon introduce the plan to Luxor governorate. The system, which saw some setbacks because of (...)
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) recently announced the details of the Future Work is Digital (FWD) initiative. The FWD, launched in cooperation with the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), (...)
The Ministry of Health and Population announced on 12 September the beginning of clinical trials for a Chinese developed COVID-19 vaccine.
According to Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed said the vaccine will be tried on 6,000 volunteers (...)
On 17 October Egypt's 23 million school students are scheduled to begin a new academic year. Until then, however, students will be going to school on an irregular basis to catch up on any curricula they have missed when the academic year was cut (...)
A second wave of Covid-19 is expected in Egypt sometime in October. It will coincide with the winter season which overlaps with the influenza virus, thus creatinga formidable challenge to doctors who need to accurately diagnose patients.
Amid fears (...)
Egypt's Ministry of Education and Technical Education signed a deal with mobile operator Orange Egypt to provide school students with easy access to their curriculum online. The three-year protocol, signed on 25 August by Minister of Education and (...)
Many parents and teachers are blaming the Ministry of Education and Technical Education for allowing international schools to reopen in Egypt by mid-September despite fears of a second wave of Covid-19. Their concern is that the reopening would (...)
Schools in Egypt, students and parents, were up in arms last week over the Cambridge grading of their International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) exams. Ayman Ahmed, 18, a grade 12 student, had always dreamed of becoming a (...)
Mention Thanaweya Amma exams and both students and parents shudder. The exams, a series of standardised tests leading to the General Secondary Education Certificate for secondary schools, often determine a student's future as the grades largely (...)
Egypt's COVID-19 peak, in terms of new infections, came on 19 June when more than 1,700 new cases, and more than 90 fatalities, were reported. This week, the average daily infection hovered around 700, and deaths dropped to 80 per day. On Monday, 16 (...)
Amid widening social media campaigns to encourage victims of sexual harassment to open up and tell their stories and reveal the identity of the harassers, there has been an outpouring of social support for survivors of such assaults. The National (...)
Two weeks since the lifting of Covid-19 related restrictions on the movement of people and businesses are back to normal hours except for shops and restaurants which close at 9pm and 10pm respectively. Streets are bustling once again after months of (...)
The Supreme Council of Universities (SCU) conducted a video conference meeting on 23 June during which university presidents agreed to hold final exams for students in their final year.
The meeting, headed by Minister of Higher Education and (...)
Despite assurances from the Ministry of Education and Technical Education that it had heightened precautionary measures to prevent the coronavirus from spreading to grade 12 high school students taking the Thanaweya Amma exams, the first of the (...)
Thanaweya Amma, or grade 12 final exams, has always been a nightmare for Egyptian households. Students are admitted to university faculties according to the scores they receive. However, Thanaweya Amma students, as well as their families and (...)
As the number Covid-19 patients multiplies, people have been rushing to pharmacies looking for vitamins and immune boosters. The requests are not based on a doctor's prescription but rather advice and suggestions collected from videos shared on (...)
Minister of Education Tarek Shawki has announced that 16,000 thermometers, 34 million face masks, 6.5 million pairs of gloves and 6,000 bottles of hand sanitiser have already been distributed to schools where a total of 650,000 students are due to (...)
The Ministry of Health has added new drugs to its protocol for treating Covid-19. They include inteferons, drugs that are used in treating many diseases that involve the immune system, for patients with moderate and severe symptoms, to be taken (...)
Minister of Education and Technical Education Tarek Shawki will issue a ministerial decree within the coming few days that seeks to end the ongoing dispute between private schools and parents over blown tuition fees.
The decree annuls any financial (...)
Among Egypt's 6,813 cases of Covid-19, there have been 113 doctors, eight of whom have lost their lives after being infected in the course of duty. A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) states that around 13 per cent of those infected in (...)
On 30 April, 570,850 grade 11 students started their final-year exams by logging onto mobile phones, laptops and desktops, forced to do so after the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Students who took the exams, which will last until 17 May, were divided (...)
University students will not be required to sit for either oral or written final exams in classes this year. They will be graded based on an online exam or a research paper. Graduating seniors will have to wait for the resumption of universities to (...)
The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) recently commended the National Council for Women (NCW) for its efforts to ensure that a gender perspective is adopted in Egypt's coronavirus response plan.
The (...)
Minister of Education and Technical Education Tarek Shawki announced the names of subjects of research projects that school students from grade three to grade nine will be required to do instead of finals. Reem Leila reports
Students are being asked (...)
