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Monday, 2 December 2019

Your top 5 education stories for the past week

Your top education news stories in Egypt this week:

  • Education Ministry softens stance on foreign ownership limits in private schools, setting up a committee that will consider investor requests for exemptions from the 20% cap.
  • Education investors hope to see education among the lineup of new sectors that will be added to the EGX in its new classification system.
  • The Higher Education Ministry plans to launch a number of programs as part of the “Study in Egypt” campaign to bring in foreign university students, Youm7 reports.
  • Egypt was ranked 82nd in the Global Knowledge Index (GKI) 2019, rising 17 spots from 99 in last year’s edition, making it the most-improved country on the index this year.
  • Classroom sizes, rote memorization, poor investment in vocational training are among the leading factors that have weakened the competitiveness of the education sector in Egypt, writes Ahmed Gamal El Din Moussa in an oped piece for Al Masry Al Youm.

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