Arab Republic of Egypt - Education Sector Review : Progress and Priorities for the Future, Volume 1. Main Report

This study assesses the educational progress of Egypt, especially in basic education and identifies the issues that still need to be addressed. At the level of basic education real progress has been made on narrowing regional and reducing gender disparities, reducing class size, eliminating multiple shifts, increasing class instructional time, and introducing technology in the classroom. While Egypt is to be lauded for its significant achievements, problems persist in the education sector. Of particular concern are the problems of the poor. The poor face numerous disadvantages in educating their children, mostly due to: more children per household, low parental education, very limited access to kindergarten, and a high private cost of public schooling. As a result, of all children age seven to eleven who are not attending school, 50 percent are from the poorest segment of the population. While Egypt has embarked on an ambitious and comprehensive education reform program, it faces numerous challenges to attain its educational goals. Foremost among the challenges are: a) improve the quality of schooling, from primary through university; b) strengthen management of educational institutions by decentralizing decisions, and promoting accountability; c) increase efficiency in the use of resources by reducing over-staffing, introducing new financial mechanisms, and given higher education managers increased autonomy and accountability in internal resource allocation; and finally, d) improve equity by ensuring the children of the poor are adequately prepared to begin school, reducing private costs of education to the poor, better targeting higher education subsidies, and initiate parent education programs to improve child development in the home. The reform program is affordable in the long run if recommendations on quality, equity and efficiency and carried out in tandem and regularly barriers to redeploy

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Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2002-10
Subjects:	ACCREDITATION, ACHIEVEMENT, ACHIEVEMENTS, ADDITION, AGE COHORT, AGE GROUP, ATTENDING SCHOOL, BASIC EDUCATION, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CLASS SIZE, CLASSROOMS, CLIMATE, COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM, COMPULSORY EDUCATION, COSTS OF EDUCATION, CURRICULA, CURRICULUM, CURRICULUM REFORM, DECISION MAKING, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DISTANCE LEARNING, DRAWING, DROPOUT RATES, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, EDUCATION CURRICULA, EDUCATION EXPENDITURES, EDUCATION FINANCE, EDUCATION INDICATORS, EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, EDUCATION LEVEL, EDUCATION LEVELS, EDUCATION PROGRAMS, EDUCATION REFORM, EDUCATION SECTOR, EDUCATION SERVICES, EDUCATION SYSTEM, EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION, EDUCATIONAL GOALS, EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, ENROLLMENT, ENROLLMENT GROWTH, ENROLLMENT RATE, ENROLLMENT RATES, GENERAL SECONDARY EDUCATION, GER, GIRLS, GIRLS EDUCATION, GROSS ENROLLMENT, GROSS ENROLLMENT RATIO, HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM, HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, IMMIGRATION, IMPROVING ACCESS, INNOVATION, INSERVICE TRAINING, INSTRUCTION, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS, INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS, KINDERGARTEN, LABOR FORCE, LABOR MARKET, LEADERSHIP, LEARNING, LEARNING OUTCOMES, LEARNING PROCESS, LEVEL OF EDUCATION, LEVELS OF EDUCATION, LITERACY, LOCAL COMMUNITIES, MANAGEMENT, MANAGERS, MATHEMATICS, MOBILITY, NATIONAL EDUCATION, NER, NET ENROLLMENT, OPEN UNIVERSITIES, PARENTS, PARTNERSHIP, PERFORMANCE INDICATORS, PRIMARY EDUCATION, PRIMARY SCHOOL, PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, PRIVATE COSTS, PRIVATE SECTOR, PUBLIC EXPENDITURE, PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PUBLIC SECTOR, QUALITY, QUALITY ASSURANCE, QUALITY CONTROL, QUALITY OF EDUCATION, REASONING, RECENT PROGRESS, REPETITION, RHETORIC, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION, SCHOOL FACILITIES, SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT, SCHOOL MANAGEMENT, SCHOOLING, SCHOOLS, SCREENING, SECONDARY EDUCATION, SECONDARY ENROLLMENT, SECONDARY LEVEL, SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, SECONDARY SCHOOLS, STANDARDIZED TESTS, STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, STUDENT ENROLLMENT, STUDENT PERFORMANCE, TEACHER, TEACHER TRAINING, TEACHERS, TEACHING, TEACHING METHODS, TECHNICAL COLLEGES, TECHNICAL EDUCATION, TERTIARY EDUCATION, TEXTBOOKS, TUTORING, UNEMPLOYMENT, UNIVERSITIES, UNIVERSITY EDUCATION, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, WORKERS, WORKING CONDITIONS, YOUTH EDUCATION SECTOR, GENDER EQUALITY, GENDER INEQUALITY, GENDER ISSUES, DECENTRALIZATION, POOR PEOPLE, EDUCATIONAL ATTENDANCE, PRIMARY SCHOOLS, DISADVANTAGED GROUPS,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/10/2138026/egypt-education-sector-review-progress-priorities-future-vol-1-2-main-report https://hdl.handle.net/10986/15339
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