CAIRO: The Egyptian educational system suffers from a large economic crisis because of shortages in the budget and the deteriorating situations of teachers, said the chairman of the Institute of Educational Research, Kamal Mogheth, at a symposium held by the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services in Ain Sokhna. Egypt has 20 million students. Seventeen million are educated in government schools, and other 2 million at al-Azhar, while there are only a million teachers, he added. The education budget is 40 billion EGP, distributed among 20 million students, or 2,000 EGP (U.S. $334) a student. However, an amount of this money is distributed to teachers and developing the educational infrastructure, resulting in every student using only 35 EGP (U.S. $5.84) a year. Egypt will be improved with education reform, because the Egyptian mind should be developed by modern curricula, especially since religion became the basis of interpretation, Mogheth noted. Mogheth also proposed new sources for financing the education system.