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Education System in Egypt

International Journal Of Humanities Education and Social Sciences (IJHESS)

This research aims to know the educational system of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The research method is literature review or literature study, which contains theories relevant to research problems. The result of the educational system of Egypt that the educational objectives are uphold democracy and the formation of democratic individuals. The authority is centralized, under the ministry of education and ministry of Al-Azhar. Curriculum preparation is carried out with teamwork consisting of experts, professors, consultants, and educational supervisors as well as experienced teachers. The government budgets 17% of the national budget. The educational structures are 1) basic education (ibtida'i), 2) secondary education/preparation (I'dadi), 3) upper secondary education (tsanawi), 4) higher education or university, and 5) elementary school level 6-11 years. The academic year start from June to August.

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Abeer Elfieky

Illiteracy is the most difficult problem facing our society it is not just a challenge to education, but is also an enormous stigma; as well as a great waste of the capabilities and potential of the present and future. It is representing an obstacle to social progress and prosperity and we must get rid of it as soon as possible. What ever the cost of defining illiteracy will remain much lower than the country losses from economic, social, and political illiteracy. It may be worth mention that the percentage of illiterate women is higher than the percentage of illiterates and this prompts to direct special attention to female literacy, because of their significant impact on the evolution of society and youth education. Over the 1990s the principle of education for all begins at the global level, this principle was a reflection of the global effort to grow continually under joint recognition since education was considered as a human right, and so is the view today that it is part of human development and that it is necessary for the protection of groups as it is add important benefits for the individual and society. One of the key factors in the progress of nations is the decline in the female illiteracy rate; obvious example for that is Japan. The percentage of female illiteracy in Japan up to 0%, and the Japanese mothers are foundations supporting their children in education and considered as a password of real revival in Japan's education system. Ofcures no comparison can be mad between the Egyptian mother and the Japanese mothers because it will be unfair comparison for the Egyptian women whom have to play mother, employee, maid and wife roles at same time and at the end should be a private teacher for their kids!! Women’s education is considered as “The most single influential investment that can be made in the developing world" Many governments now support women’s education not only to encourage economic growth, but also to promote smaller families, increase modern contraceptive use, and improve child health. It is strongly believed that education of females provides significant benefits for girls and women, their families and the societies in general. Meanwhile, it is an important means for better employment opportunities also it leads to the transfer of females from low paying, low productive activities to activities of higher economic value because Women with more schooling tend to have smaller, healthier families. It is obvious all over the world that more education is linked with smaller family size and has an effect on the ability of women to contribute to the labor market which well led at the end to efficient economic growth. We can also see that The relationship between education and employment for women is indirect, the reason behind this is that other socio economic factors "in addition to education" affect the employment status of women, which have to be taken in consideration while implementing a policy for educational and employment promotion of women. There is no doubt that women are half of Egyptian society and sponsor the other half, Therefore, the governmental and non-governmental organizations doubling the effort to strengthen the role of Egyptian women to increase their participation in economic and social development in Egypt. It is worth to mention that Due to specific gender policies female’s access to certain types of secondary vocational schooling is restricted. Nevertheless, inadequate vocational training for women placed them in a subordinate position in the labor market, especially after privatization and the efforts to release some workers from the public sector and retrain them. By pointing at Females in secondary education, we find that they are concentrated in commercial education and general secondary education at the expense of vocational training. This is a natural consequence of some prevailing norms, as general education is considered the appropriate education for girls. As a result girls are usually restricted to sectors, which are more vulnerable to decrease of economic crisis. Although the education of women is considered to be very important, most Egyptians believe that the Egyptian educational system does not have the capacity to provide anyone, men or women, with an adequate education. While many Egyptians feel positive about the recent efforts to expand adult literacy programs they do not consider the public school system to be efficient. But we have to mention that the strategy of educational reform in Egypt stresses education as one of the basic human rights that exerts benefit to the citizen and the country and Providing access to basic education of all citizens is forms an essential part in the development processes that are designed to achieve National Security, manpower development and facing the challenges and unexpected changes of the future. - The purpose of this paper is to discuss the status of the Egyptian education system in general, highlighting the conditions of females 'education, education problems in general and female education problems in particularly and what steps the government had been taken to improve the statue of education. Due to the limited data and time frame the report depended on existing available documentation as well as date.

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PurposeEducational management's main task is to achieve learning quality outcomes in acquiring knowledge, scientific skills and social values. This study aims to provide a background on Egyptian thought development in educational management from 1990 to 2020.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, we used the descriptive method to collect and interpret data. This method aims to describe an object of phenomena after data collection, analyze it, identify the conditions and relationships between variables and monitor the challenges arising from Egypt's educational system's problems.FindingsThe results showed the following: (1) the trend toward decentralization of educational management is not fulfill during that period and (2) the district and directorate administration continued to receive administrative instructions from the managerial ladder's highest authorities. The Ministry of Education was in control of policy decision-making processes and administrative and fi...

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The Egyptian Education was Suffering from a lot of Educational problems since the 20th century like Illiteracy, Unemployment and low quality of Egyptian education and this is because of many causes like over population, crowded classrooms, shortage of school buildings and education facilities and a shortage in financial fund for schools so from the era of president Gamal Abdel Nasser till now and the Egyptian government made a lot of policies and reforms for the improving and developing the pre-Universities educational systems in Egypt some of this polices failed and some of it was achieved a great succession and in 2014 and with the era of president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi the ministry of education put new polices that will last for 2030 (Ministry of Education, 2014), and this polices will make a huge change in the educational systems and will change the Egyptian rank in the world order in education but there are some challenges that facing this implementations as there is a problem in Providing lands for school construction, Providing production lines for school feeding and increasing of Private lessons industry but the Ministry is working hard to overcome this challenges and solving the Egyptian Educational system by the end of 2030 (Ministry of Education, 2014).

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Purpose Educational policy is crucial to society. Its process is related to political, economic and cultural variables. Nevertheless, there is a paucity of research in the field of applied social sciences, about how educational policies help to achieve societal objectives and welfare. This study aims to assess the concept and features of school education in Egypt during 1990-2017. Design/methodology/approach Secondary data were collected using governmental reports and educational institutional reports and assessed through specialized focus groups. Findings Results showed that, despite the multiplicity of strategies to reform the educational system, achievements and outcomes of educational processes are modest, and the developmental status of Egypt is lower than that of other countries. Studying educational outcomes indicated that school-education suffered from the predominance of quantity over quality and a serious inability to meet requirements of new knowledge era. Originality/val...

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This paper tries to investigate the Fatimid educational administration experience in Egypt. It starts by reviewing the historical conditions that paved the way for the establishment of this Ismā’īli state, as well as the principal foundations of their ideology. This is significant, because in medieval Islam administration of educational activities was part of an interconnected bureaucracy, in which education, religious sectarian preferences and politics were inseparable. Writing about the Fatimid educational administration is always difficult because the Fatimid political apparatus’s nature, and the wide spread culture of secrecy. What makes the matter more complicated is the style of recording events by Muslim historians of that era. They followed a methodology which chronicled the political, religious and economic aspects of life on annual basis, and neglected other aspects such as educational administration. Concepts related to modern educational administration literature like centralization, unity of command, span of control and merit, were rarely mentioned in the historical sources. These difficulties made this research a testing challenge.

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Educating Egypt: Civic values and ideological struggles

Linda Herrera. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 2022, 244 pp. ISBN 978-1-649-03169-3 (hbk), ISBN 978-1-649-03102-0 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-649-03103-7 (eBook)

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