CAIRO: Around 33 percent of Egyptian educational expenditures go to private lessons, according to a recent study by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). The recently released study on education expenditures in Egypt in 2008/2009 revealed the tuition expenditures also reached 33 percent. The rate of educational spending increased to 4.6 percent of the average Egyptian family's total expenditures, after basic expenses such as food, housing, clothing, and medical care. As for educational expenditures in urban areas, governmental and private primary education and private academic education reached 25 percent. Meanwhile, governmental secondary education, governmental academic education, and private secondary education went up 16 percent, 11 percent and 7 percent respectively. Regarding educational spending in rural areas, governmental primary education reached 52 percent; governmental secondary education went up 25 percent; Academic education 11 percent; private primary education 6 percent; and private academic education 5 percent. The more education level increased, the less spending on private lessons, the study showed. The study also revealed that expenditure on private lessons in educated families reached 24 percent compared to the expenditure in less educated families, which reached 36 percent.
