THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF EDUCATION CONFERENCE, 08 MAY 2017, AS DECLARED BY DR. BADRAWI
May 11, 2017
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- Complying with the reference of Egypt’s Vision 2030 on education as declared by the Republic President, to ensure sustainability of development efforts within an agreed framework, with no objection on developing it with an agreed methodology every certain number of years.
- Agreeing on the need of a radical change to education management system in Egypt in stages to replace the current system which does not meet the future needs.
- Selecting to enable students technologically as a base. All education institutions’ utilization of future tools with the required modernization and building of the infrastructure that is necessary for such utilization, considering this a priority in spending.
- Turning to students’ accumulated evaluation in all education stages, utilizing the technology to achieve it and eliminating the human factor as much as possible to achieve fairness, comprehensiveness and efficiency in measuring the abilities and skills. The society confidence lies in the evaluation integrity.
- Resolving the challenge of general secondary school and admission to the higher education challenge as one unit by changing the evaluation system, expanding the range of student selections in secondary stage and modifying the system of admission to higher education, while maintaining fairness and equality of opportunities.
- Expanding the places available in higher education, technological universities, in cooperation with the private sector, national sector and the state to accommodate a new one million places for youth within the 10 upcoming years. This necessitates having quality assurance, efficiency and investment incentives in this direction.
- Developing a funding system for higher education students, after consideration of successful international system alternatives. This will ensure student’s ability to secure a learning opportunity, regardless the student’s financial abilities to ensure equality of opportunities.
- Implementing the constitutional requirement in education management by moving toward decentralization. The conference agreed the importance of empowering the potentials of decentralized administrations and creating leaders that are capable of doing the same.
- Finding a method that accommodates society participation with documented ideas through the experience of parents and students in facing education challenges from their point of view.
- Developing the methods of presenting a curriculum to students using the modern technology means.
- Integrating knowledge bank program into the education process at all levels.
- Expanding Nile schools and science and mathematics schools (stem) and founding similar patterns in all governorates.
- Finding new learning methods for Arabic language as the basis of identity, and making it obligatory in all school types in Egypt.
- Continuing in teacher professional training programs, finding means to effectively develop education faculties to match the education variables in the future and reconsidering the management of teacher’s academy so it will return to implementing the philosophy it was created for.
- Supporting the development of authority of quality assurance and accreditation to be a key partner in education development.
- Facing the challenge of private lessons by changing a student’s evaluation method, presenting curriculum to students in interesting and enjoyable ways, utilizing and integrating technology in the education process and enabling students and teachers to use it.
- Increasing the number of missions to study abroad within a declared policy for postgraduate studies.
- Increasing the contribution of universities to scientific research that is published globally, obtaining patents and linking a part of funding it by the state to this achievement as a motive for research and publication.
- The state should set and declare its scientific research priorities every 5 years, redirect the state expenditure to research and development, within state-declared projects that research institutions and universities will compete on executing them.
- Declaring formation of permanent general secretariat for this conference that shall follow up implementation of the recommendations, study the submitted suggestions and innovations as creative solutions to develop education in Egypt.
2017-05-11
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