The Minister of Education gives a lecture on Egypt's strategy to develop education at Nasser Military Academy

Today, Sunday, Dr. Tarek Shawky, Minister of Education and Technical Education, gave a lecture at the Nasser Higher Military Academy, in which he reviewed the strategy of the Ministry of Education and Technical Education to develop the educational process in Egypt.
This came in the presence of Major General Staff Ashraf Al-Sanhoury, Deputy Director of the Nasser Higher Military Academy, on behalf of Major General Staff War Ayman Naim Thabet, Director of the Academy, Major General Staff Sameh Al-Dajwi, Director of the College of National Defense, and a group of armed forces who studied the courses of the Higher College of War and National Defense.
Dr. Tarek Shawky confirmed that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi made education one of the priorities for development in Egypt when he launched the “Towards an Egyptian Society that Learns, Thinks and Innovates” initiative in 2014, in an attempt to solve the chronic problems of education and pay attention to the thought of the Egyptian person.
The minister pointed out that the Egyptian Knowledge Bank was established, which is the largest electronic library in the world and is a platform for transferring world knowledge and making it available to citizens free of charge.
The Minister reviewed the Egyptian education development plan, starting with the President’s mandate to launch the new Egyptian education system, and to change the entire educational system to shift from education to learning, noting that the goal is to develop education and bring about a revolution that will put our students on the path of knowledge progress, not learning to obtain certificates. .
The Minister added, in 2017, we started building learning from the ground up in the kindergarten stage to develop the child’s personality, which is an investment for Egypt in the coming years, and began work on the general framework of Curriculum 2.0, which works on building the student’s abilities and acquiring various life skills from problem solving and creativity, And discussion, action and critical thinking, in an attempt to teach the Egyptian child to learn these abilities through curricula that contain these skills.
Dr. Tariq Shawky continued, that the ministry is implementing a different plan to set the general framework for the curricula through cooperation with many advanced countries in education such as America, Finland, Singapore and others, in cooperation with the Curriculum Development Center, which includes an elite group of experts and specialized professors along with foreign partners to push our students to think. and graduate students who are globally competitive.
The minister added that the academic year 2018/2019 witnessed the first school year for the new curricula, and the English language is now taught from the primary stage, and pointed out that the implementation of the new education system with the new curricula reached the fourth grade of primary this year, and work is underway in building curricula for the rest of the primary grades. .
The Minister added that teachers are the mainstay for developing the new system 2.0, and they have been trained on this system, and that teacher training is a continuous process all the time, and takes place throughout the year, and a teacher’s guide has been created for each subject, in addition to a TV channel containing the teacher’s guide. Upload it through YouTube, to help students and teachers understand the scientific material.
The minister pointed out that the ministry established Japanese schools in 2018 in cooperation with the Japan International Cooperation Agency, which receives attention directly from the political leadership, stressing that the new curricula are applied in these schools, in addition to the full range of activities and the school day in the Japanese tekatsu system based on learning through learning. verb.
The Minister touched on the high school, noting that we have invested during the past years in providing sources of knowledge through the implementation of question banks and knowledge banks and the introduction of technology in the educational process, and the provision of tablets to understand the content of the curricula in a new way, pointing out that to understand the information, the assessment method has been changed to measure the skill of retrieval Information through questions that measure the amount of understanding the intended real learning outcomes.
With regard to relying on private lessons, the minister said, we have provided study resources to reduce this phenomenon, as a number of digital platforms, direct broadcasting platforms for lessons, educational channels, a systems platform for learning management, electronic lessons library and Edmodo, and other digital learning methods have been provided, which It is offered to our students, and has a broadcast schedule for all curricula for different grades, all for free.
Dr. Tariq Shawky was keen to review the ministry’s efforts, saying that the new system in technical education depends on the idea of ​​methodological competencies, which works to give the student specialized skills in his field, noting that the ministry has established schools of applied technology in cooperation with the industrial partner, and the introduction of new specialties, and pointed out He indicated that the book "Professions of the Future" is being prepared for the next academic year to provide a better opportunity for technical education students.
Shawky pointed to the state's interests in developing technical education in order to meet the needs of the labor market and raise the efficiency of technical workers, which contributes to strengthening the capabilities of the national economy.
The Minister of Education and Technical Education called for the attendees to cooperate and the need to restore the role of parents in the desire to learn and stay away from all societal phenomena that harm our students, such as the phenomenon of cheating and the phenomenon of private lessons.
At the end of the meeting, Major General Ashraf Al-Sanhoury, Deputy Director of the Nasser Higher Military Academy, thanked and appreciated the minister’s keenness to accept this invitation and enrich the attendees with this information, and add more experiences and knowledge, wishing more success, progress and prosperity under the leadership of the President of the Republic, and presented the Minister the Academy’s shield in appreciation to his honorable person.
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