The Minister of Education and the Governor of South Sinai participate in the conference "The Digital Path: Recent Trends in Education"

Tariq Shawky: Our goal is to develop education and bring about a revolution that puts our students on the path of cognitive advancement, not learning to obtain certificates

Major General Khaled Fouda: The talk about the digital path reflects the interest of the Egyptian state and the political leadership in developing education in Egypt

Dr. Tariq Shawky, Minister of Education and Technical Education, and Major General Khaled Fouda, Governor of South Sinai, participated today in the activities of the "Digital Path: Modern Trends in Education" conference, which will be held in Sharm El Sheikh from 25 to 27 March 2021, in the presence of a number of Ministry leaders and a number of education development experts from different countries of the world.

Dr. Tarek Shawky confirmed that the Egyptian state invested in the development of the educational process during the recent period, according to the directives of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, President of the Republic, to be an Egyptian society that learns, thinks and innovates, indicating that this message was the engine for the development of the educational process.

Shawky said that the political leadership in Egypt has the desire to develop education, explaining that the educational development journey began in February 2017 to benefit nearly 23 million students in different school stages by walking in many directions, namely the application of the new education system 2.0 and the modified evaluation system, and the creation of models New schools such as "Japanese schools" and "schools of applied technology" and attention to education for people with special needs.

In his speech, the Minister of Education reviewed the Egyptian education development plan, which aims to change the entire system to transform from education to learning, saying: Our goal is to develop Egyptian education and bring about a revolution that puts our students on the path of knowledge progress, not learning to obtain certificates.

Shawky added that the ministry is implementing a different plan through the curricula that we have put in place to push our students to think and not just pass exams, noting that we invested more than two years ago in implementing question banks and knowledge banks and introducing technology into the educational process.

In his speech, the Minister of Education moved to talk about the ministry's efforts in light of the spread of the Corona pandemic and its keenness to continue the education of students by providing many different educational alternatives (digital platforms - television channels - distance learning platforms - knowledge bank), which was praised by most international institutions. Such as the "World Bank" and "UNICEF".

The minister talked about adding many modern curricula to school years, such as "information technology" to qualify students to face future challenges, which depend on teaching curricula to children in an interesting interactive way and not by indoctrination.

And he added, "We have a problem with the cultural heritage in our society, which is relying on private lessons, but we were able to provide a number of digital platforms and provided live broadcast platforms for educational lessons. All these tools helped us in the stage of the spread of the Coronavirus."

He explained that we own the curricula that were created for the new education system, in addition to our owning the question banks for the first time, which helps us transfer our experience to dozens of countries along the lines of international certificates, and that the Ministry worked to approve the EST exam to be the only qualification for American diploma students to coordinate Egyptian universities because Many mistakes and Mafia international certificates.

On technical education, Shawky stressed that the new system in technical education depends on the idea of ​​competencies, which works to give students specialized skills in their field, noting that the ministry has developed the experience of schools of applied technology in cooperation with the industrial partner, in order to provide a better opportunity for students of technical education.

Shawky referred to the state's interest in developing technical education in order to meet the needs of the labor market and raise the technical efficiency of the labor force, in a way that contributes to enhancing the capabilities of the national economy.

In his speech at the conference, Major General Khaled Fouda, Governor of South Sinai, said that the talk and dialogue about the digital path reflects the interest of the Egyptian state and the political leadership in developing education in Egypt using the latest means, methods and technological tools.

Fouda added that the entry of education in Egypt to the horizons of the digital path and the introduction of the latest advanced technological means has become a strategic choice and an imperative to catch up with the advanced countries in the field of education and even achieve leadership and precedence for our country.

He pointed out that what the state has done over the past few years in the path of digital education is something that reflects awareness and anticipation of the scientific events and crises that the world has witnessed recently, especially in the face of the Corona pandemic, pointing out that Egypt had come a good way in this field.

The governor of South Sinai explained that the cooperation between the governorate and the Ministry of Education is fruitful, as many schools have been established that offer different education models in the governorate, such as the International Public School and the Egyptian-Japanese School, and the delivery of education to girls in the border areas.

During the conference activities, a number of symbolic gifts from the linguistic dictionaries were presented to a number of the ministry's leaders. The conference "The Digital Path: Modern Trends in Education" discusses many future issues that concern education around the world, organized by the York Press and Longman Foundation.