Egyptian Higher Education

Ancient Egyptians focused on education and science; through writing inventions, they played an important role in early communication education and took the first steps of human civilization. Their civilization was protected by language and ancient legacy. (Service 2008) Elsadda (2008) refers to the Arab human development report entitled "Building a Knowledge Society" published in 2003, which emphasizes the reason behind the crisis. In education, they summarized lack of resources, inadequacies of management, declining quality of educational services, unrefined systems, and lack of democratic culture in society and institutions.

The World Bank's Higher Education Intensive Program analyzes issues and challenges in Egypt's higher education system, which is part of a comprehensive reform strategy for Egypt's higher education. The agenda for higher education reform was influenced by the National Higher Education Conference held in February 2000 to address the need for Egypt to improve the quality of university education. The Egyptian higher education sector has (i) outdated system-wide governance and management, (ii) low quality at the university level and adequacy, (iii) low level quality and relevance, moderate level including. Public funds for public funds are limited (World Bank, 2000: 1)

Egypt has a very broad tertiary education system. Approximately 30% of the Egyptians of the relevant age group go to the university. However, only half of them graduated. The Ministry of Higher Education monitors higher education. There are many universities that respond to students in various fields. In the current education system there are 17 public universities, 51 universities other than public universities, 16 private universities, and 89 private higher education institutions. By 2009, it is estimated that about 6% (60,000) students will increase in the higher education cohort. (Egypt Higher Education: National Education Policy Review, 2010)

The new generation of Egyptians places more emphasis on women's education than before. In 2011 it was estimated that there were 2.6 million higher education students, 51% of whom were women. This is well above the Arab region and the world average of 24% and 29%, respectively. The unemployment rate of all young Egyptians is high, but it is particularly high for women. In the 2010 survey, it was shown that only 13.4% of women aged 15 to 29 years of age are employed, or they are looking for work. Although women of higher income quintiles are economically vigorous, the proportion of women in vocational education or higher education is still less than 35.1%. 46.7% of women who graduated from university were significantly more economically active than lower educated women. However, I am looking for a job, at least 80% of men in the entire income group are hired.