In 2017, Egypt embarked on a major reform to build a new education system, “Education 2.0.”
THE EDU 2.0 PROJECT documents the first six years of these ambitious education reforms in Egypt that began in 2017 with plans to be fully implemented by 2030 in line with Egypt Vision 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goal #4 (SDG4). The reforms are focused on better learning outcomes, skills, and deep cultural change that “seek to replace the country’s traditional culture rote, exam-driven memorization with one that promotes student-centred teaching and competency-based learning for life, alongside mastery of technology” for the twenty-first century (Education Sector Plan for Egypt 2023, P. 73).
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WHO IS THIS WEBSITE FOR?
This website caters to students, researchers, educators, and international education development professionals. It provides resources in English and Arabic on the ongoing reform. To learn more about the project, see ABOUT.
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THE MANY CHALLENGES
An over-crowded classroom. Al-Masry al-Youm (2017)
The education sector reforms are taking place within a context of a vast and growing school population of over 25 million K-12 students. Overcrowding, teacher shortages, and struggles over resources and political direction are compounded by a pervasive unregulated private lesson market (a shadow education system) with its own economy and system of rewards. Recent data show that ”only 19% of grade 4 students demonstrate foundational reading skills and 29% for math.” Despite many policy interventions, problems of equity, inclusion, and quality persist. The reforms for a new education system aim to confront and tackle these challenges while infusing education with innovative ideas, tools, and approaches. The challenges to transform the education system are tremendous and require ongoing research, imagination, bold interventions, long-term commitment and resources, and the collective efforts of all stakeholders.
