Your top education stories for the week:

• CIRA and Saxony International School are in partnership talks for planned German schools in Sixth of October.
• Several private schools applied for exemptions from the government’s 20% foreign ownership cap and the Education Ministry has begun reviewing them.
• Actis inked an MoU with the Sovereign Fund of Egypt to drive investment to Egypt worth some GBP 3 bn in infrastructure, health, and education over the next three years.
• 10 Italian universities proposed establishing a European university complex in the new administrative capital.
• Higher Education Minister Khaled Abdel Ghafar is seeking avenues for cooperation with US education officials and heads of university including George Washington and Johns Hopkins in Washington this week.