CAIRO, May 8, 2018 (MENA) - Egypt's Education Minister Tareq Shawqi said Tuesday that the new education system will be applied at government and Japanese schools as of the next academic year 2018-2019. The system will be applied to students enrolled in the KG department and first graders, Shawqi said in a post on his Facebook page. He made it clear that the pre-university education council will assess the experiment in the summer of 20l9 and study whether to apply the new system to experimental and private language schools as of academic year 2020-2021. Shawqi stressed that his ministry has not made any decision yet in this regard.