"Education" holds a meeting with a delegation from JICA (Tokyo) to follow up on the project of transferring the Japanese model in education through tokatsu activities

The Ministry of Education and Technical Education held a meeting with the JICA Mission (Tokyo); To follow the project of transferring the Japanese model in education through tokatsu activities.
The meeting was attended by Dr. Mohamed Megahed, Deputy Minister for Technical Education, Dr. Reda Hegazy, Deputy Minister for Teacher Affairs, Dr. Hani Helal, former Minister of Higher Education and Secretary General of the Steering Committee of the Egyptian-Japanese Partnership for Education (EJEP), Nevin Hammouda, Advisor to the Minister of Education for Strategic Relations and supervisor of the Egyptian-Japanese Schools Project, and Dr. Hanim Ahmed, Advisor to the Minister for International Cooperation, and from JICA, Tanaka Shinichiro-san, Senior Adviser for Inclusive Education in JICA, Iwasaki-san, Deputy Director of the Basic Education Group in the Development Department, Shino Madoka-san, representative of JICA’s office in Egypt, Ms. Dina Karam, Senior Program Officer, and Ms. Heba El-Husseini, Program Officer JICA Egypt Office, Nakajima Moto-san, Tokatsu Project Adviser, and Ms. Randa Lashin from the Technical Support Team for Japanese Experts.
Dr. Reda Hegazy, Deputy Minister for Teachers’ Affairs, explained that training will start on implementing tokatsu activities in all schools that apply the new Egyptian curriculum, noting that the new Egyptian curriculum contains a weekly tokatsu activities component for all schools (45 minutes per week - 3 activities), except It was not strongly activated due to the disruption of the study as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of the Corona epidemic.
He indicated that this activity will be achieved in the second phase of the Japanese cooperation, whereby workshops will start to prepare and activate tokatsu activities in all public schools, and the first phase will start in July 2022.
He stressed that in order to preserve the identity and philosophy of Japanese education and to implement the tokatsu philosophy as followed in Japan, a certificate of accreditation for tokatsu trainers was launched, as it was agreed with JICA to issue the first accreditation certificate for tokatsu training.
Nevin Hammouda, Advisor to the Minister of Education for Strategic Relations and supervisor of the Egyptian-Japanese Schools project, indicated that the decision was taken to activate the second component of the agreement with Japan, which is 100 public schools in which the school environment will be improved and will be selected within the schools of the Decent Life Initiative, where basic activities are activated. Encyclopedia package on those public schools.
For his part, Tanaka Shinichiro-san, Senior Advisor for Inclusive Education at JICA, stressed that accrediting the first 9 Egyptian trainers as certified trainers for tokatsu activities in the world is a great achievement, and we aim to increase the number of tokatsu trainers to preserve the true Japanese identity of tokatsu activities.
Osaki-san learned about the training system applied to all Egyptian teachers and the various training channels available, and expressed her happiness with the ministry's plan to include training on tokatsu activities for the training of teachers based on the new Egyptian curriculum 2.0.