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  • Wednesday ,04 October 2017
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Egyptian education and bureaucracy

Mina M. Azer

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Wednesday ,04 October 2017

Egyptian education and bureaucracy

I can t deny the efforts of Dr. Tarek Shawki, Minister of Education in Egypt, concerning the problems of education in Egypt. I admit the man has solved the problem of Thanawia Amma, but there is even more important problem that he should care about. 

There are hundreds of villages without schools and hundreds of schools with too many students and very few teachers. This was followed by a controversial statement by the Egyptian businessman Samieh Sawirous who announced he failed to build 10.000 schools in Egypt thanks to the bureaucracy. Sawirous announced he spent two years trying to get the permits to build the schools, but he failed!
 
The man is right as the government should have taken the chance and accepted the offer of the businessman who cares for Egypt. What a stupid system to waste such chance to build 10.000 schools.
 
In short, there is no use in a country that doesn t care about education.