President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi instructed the government to launch the second stage of the Decent Life initiative designed to provide better living conditions for 18 million people living in the poorest 1,381 villages all over Egypt. The government (...)
Egypt is expecting new batches of Covid-19 vaccine, Sinopharm from China and Oxford/AstraZeneca, to arrive by the end of this month.
As soon as the batches arrive, the ministry will start calling on the public to take the vaccine which will be (...)
The National Council for Women (NCW) along with Egypt National Railways (ENR) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) put their hands together to make Egypt's railway network safer for female passengers. The trio agreed to (...)
Sexual harassment has been endemic in Egypt for decades with 99 per cent of Egyptian females experiencing harassment and violence at least once in their lifetime, according to the findings of a UN study, reports Reem Leila.
One of the biggest (...)
Just like many parts of the world, Covid-19 has had a dramatic impact on Egypt's healthcare system. When the pandemic was at its peak in April and May, a shortage of intensive care beds and ventilators was a common problem. Non-governmental (...)
The cabinet approved amendments to Article 28 of Education Law 139/1981on regulations of ThanaweyaAmmaexams.
The amendments coincide with Egypt's plan for sustainable development, part of Egypt's Vision 2030 which focuses on improving the quality of (...)
UN Women recently issued a report on the impact of Covid-19 on the increasing percentage of violence, whether domestic or public, against women.
Titled “Impact of Covid-19 on violence against women and Girls in Arab states through the lens of women (...)
The number of new daily coronavirus infections in Egypt is on the rise, reaching 370 on Monday with 14 deaths, bringing the country's total death toll to 6,650. While the government keeps urging people to stick to social distancing and other (...)
Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed announced this week that 16 million citizens have been tested as part of the presidential initiative to treat chronic diseases and detect nephropathy in its earliest stages. Nephropathy is a disease of (...)
For the second week in a row the world received good news on the Covid-19 vaccine. On Monday, US company Moderna announced it has developed a Covid-19 vaccine with an efficiency rate in excess of 94 per cent. The news arrived hot on the heels of (...)
Health officials have assured the public that Egypt will be among the first countries to get the Pfizer vaccine once it is fully approved. Pfizer, the US multinational pharmaceutical corporation company, in collaboration with Germany's BioNTech, (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi on 31 October inaugurated the King Salman University in Sharm El-Sheikh, one of the national projects for the development of the Sinai Peninsula. The university has two branches in the city of Tor and Ras Sedr, with a (...)
Daily infections of the coronavirus are increasing in Egypt. In recent weeks infections have passed 150 a day after averaging 100 during the summer months. Amid fears of a second wave of the virus, the Ministry of Health and Population announced the (...)
When women gained their political rights in 1956, they probably could not have dared imagine how far they would get. But they would progress markedly as attested by their current representation in parliament. Females are running for 25 per cent of (...)
In an attempt to ease parents' and students' worries, Minister of Education Tarek Shawki addressed the press in a video conference and outlined how staff and students will be protected from exposure to Covid-19 as the educational process (...)
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 (...)
