Together We Can initiative aims to raise the quality of education in Egypt in three stages, Minister of Education Mahmoud Abou el-Nasr said in a statement Monday.
The ministry is targeting 19 million students throughout the country and established 1,150 schools in addition to 600 “one-room schools.”
Together We Can also aims to improve 30 percent of the schools curriculum and the rest in the future. The ministry plan also started a project to improve reading and writing abilities of 11 million students.
The initiative was discussed in a meeting between Abou el-Nasr and Minister of Culture Gaber Asfour on Monday. Its strategy will include training teachers on the most modern methods of teaching and using technology. It will also award gifted students and teachers for encouragement.
The Ministry of Culture will cooperate with the Ministry of Education in this initiative and Asfour praised the efforts to fix educational process in the country.
“Culture and education complete each other in the mission to build the minds of Egyptians,” according to the Ministry of Culture’s statements Tuesday.
Nasr presented Together We Can initiative in the meeting but it was more important for its strategy could be amended. Supreme Council of Culture officials were also present is to discuss the initiative with the intellectual elites.
“The new plan will improve the education process in Egypt and will raise the students’ awareness to the negative aspects of extremism and intolerance,” former head of Technical Education Sector in Giza Amani el-Sayed told The Cairo Post in phone interview Tuesday.
She explained that education plays vital part in “shaping the minds of the future generations” and the necessity of building new schools and developing the existing ones so the students will be more comfortable in classes.
Together We Can initiative was launched earlier in 2014 and its goals and targets will be accomplished in 2030.