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 (...)
Grade 10 students this week started experimental online exams lasting two weeks. A total of 589,000 students took the exams at home following the closure of schools because of the coronavirus.
“Students nationwide have logged onto the exam's (...)
Final exams for primary and preparatory students have been cancelled in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak and the assessment of students will be based on a project or a research paper in each subject, said Minister of Education Tarek (...)
With public and private schools and institutions of higher education closed, measures to secure the academic future of students have included the rolling out of online learning platforms as well as the postponement and sometimes cancelling of (...)
The unprecedented rainstorm which rocked Egypt last week was felt the most in vulnerable neighbourhoods, none more so than Al-Zarayeb district, in the 15 May City in Helwan. The weekend storm killed more than 20 of its residents. It left many others (...)
Panic is sweeping the country as fast as the virus is spreading. Throughout the past week, the coronavirus scare has been spreading rapidly in Egypt, especially after the death of six people from the COVID-19 was announced and the increase in the (...)
This week saw growing concerns about the spread of the new coronavirus in Egypt to replace the possible insouciance of a few days earlier when many had done little but joke about the matter.
But that was before the Ministry of Health and Population (...)
Egyptian women had the unique opportunity to take part in the annual Women's Economic Forum (WEF) late last week, the first time the forum was held outside India since it began in 2015.
More than 75 countries participated in the two-day forum which (...)
Amid rising apprehensions of COVID-19 Egypt's Ministry of Health is on the alert. This week a second case was confirmed and hundreds of suspects tested.
The second confirmed case is a Canadian citizen working for a petroleum company. The Canadian (...)
At the Arab Hope Makers awards ceremony in the United Arab Emirates last Thursday donors raced to outbid each other in support of building the Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre. After more than 44 million dirhams were raised Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid (...)
The American University in Cairo (AUC) this week wrapped up its year-long celebrations marking its 100th anniversary as it begins a new century. Throughout the week-long festivities, called “Be the Future”, the university staged several events that (...)
Earlier this week Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed confirmed the first and so far only case of Corvid-19 in Egypt, a Chinese citizen who arrived in the country late last month. The Chinese national had shown no symptoms on entry. The (...)
The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced that Egypt's population surpassed 100 million this week. Ten million Egyptians who reside abroad are not included in this figure.
Egypt ranks 13th globally in terms of (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi was in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa earlier this week to participate in the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit, during which he passed the chair of the AU to South Africa. The summit was convened under the banner (...)
More than 300 Egyptians arrived at Alamein airport on 3 February after being airlifted from the Chinese city of Wuhan. The passengers, including 11 children and a pregnant woman, together with the airline crew were sent directly to a hospital in (...)
Egypt is screening travellers coming from China and other destinations that have reported cases of the new Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Suspected cases are isolated and transferred to Al-Abbasiya Fever Hospital. Health Ministry doctors are undertaking (...)
Final term exams for Grade 11 kicked off on 11 January and will last for 11 days. Around 590,000 such students are sitting for their electronic exams at 3,252 private and public schools all over the country.
Ninety per cent of those students have (...)
The third edition of the World Youth Forum (WYF), inaugurated by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh, discussed diverse issues, among them peace, security and illegal immigration.
According to President Al-Sisi, (...)
Minister of Education Tarek Shawki has decreed foreign investors' shares in private schools be limited to 20 per cent. According to the ministerial decree, the majority shareholders of private schools must be Egyptian while foreign investors, be (...)
VIOLENCE against women includes domestic and sexual violence and practices such as early marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and trafficking. This week, to coincide with the International Day for Eliminating Violence Against Women, the (...)
