CAIRO, July 31, 2018 (MENA) - Minister of State for Military Production Mohamed Saeed el Assar and Minister of Higher Education Khaled Abdel Ghaffar on Tuesday honoured the outstanding students of the Egyptian Academy for Engineering and Advanced Technology, which is an affiliate to the Ministry of Military Production. In his speech at the ceremony, Assar said that education is the cornerstone of Egypt's progress and its national security. He also urged the students to exert all efforts for excelling in their studies and make use of training programmes offered by the ministry. For his part, Abdel Ghaffar lauded the excellent students, expressing satisfaction over the support extended by the Military Production Ministry to the academy.