CAIRO, August 17, 2018 (MENA) – Egyptian Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar witnessed the signing ceremony of a twinning partnership between Engineering Faculty of Ain Shams University and School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering of University of East London. The agreement aims at granting Egyptian students bachelor's degrees from Ain Shams and East London universities in the fields of architecture, construction, computing and information systems. During the ceremony held Thursday, the minister said the deal comes within the directives of the political leadership to raise the standards of Egyptian universities and institutes. He also pointed out at the deeply-rooted relations between Egypt and the UK especially in the fields of higher education, scientific research and technology. The University of East London (UEL) is a public university in London, England. The university's roots can be traced back to 1892 when the West Ham Technical Institute was established. It gained university status in 1992.
