Japanese Parliamentarian Praises the Success of the Japanese-Style Education System in Egyptian

Ms. Karen Makishima, Japanese Parliamentarian and former Minister of Digital Affairs, Information Technology and Regulatory Reform in Japan, praised the successes achieved by Egypt in implementing the Japanese-Style Education System in Egyptian-Japanese schools, stressing the importance of benefiting from Egypt's experience in Japan's support for development in Africa in the field of education.

This came after the participation of Mr. Mohamed Abdel Latif, Minister of Education and Technical Education, via video conference, in the "Friends of Education" forum organized by the Global Partnership for Education "GPE" under the title "The Japanese-Style Education System and Future Prospects towards the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9): Learning from Egypt's Experience".

Ms. Karen Makishima confirmed, in an article published on her official page on the social networking site "Facebook", that the Japanese-style education system in Egyptian-Japanese schools "Tokkatsu" has been successfully introduced in Egypt, where 16,226 students are currently studying in 55 Egyptian-Japanese schools, with the participation of 2,671 teachers who received specialized training, praising her visit to one of the Egyptian-Japanese schools in January 2020, where she witnessed the positive behaviors, skills and habits of students, their integration into learning activities and students' acquisition of skills such as taking responsibility, appreciating themselves and others, and other life skills and values ​​by allocating 45 minutes per week to Tokkatsu activities.

Ms. Karen also confirmed Makishima stressed the importance of the ongoing cooperation between Egypt and Japan to promote the Japanese-style education system in Egyptian-Japanese schools, expressing her aspiration to continue working and striving to implement this style in more than 1,700 public schools by 2027.