The Minister of Education and the Governor of Qalyubia hold a meeting with the directors of educational departments in the governorate
Dr. Reda Hegazy, Minister of Education and Technical Education, and Major General Abdel Hamid Al-Hagan, Governor of Qalyubia, held a meeting today with education leaders and directors of educational departments in the governorate. To review the procedures related to the discipline and regularity of the second semester of the academic year 2023/2024, and to review the decisions and procedures related to developing the educational process and the smooth running of the academic year.
At the beginning of the meeting, the Minister thanked the governor and the governorate’s educational leaders for the efforts made to control the educational process in the governorate, especially the smooth conduct of the preparatory certificate exams.
Within the framework of the procedures related to developing the educational process in the governorate, the Minister said that in light of providing all learning resources that help our students in the efficiency of the teaching and learning process, and providing a distinctive package of educational materials that provides a distinguished explanation of the school curricula, and reduces the burden on the Egyptian family, the Ministry announced Making educational and training materials available for grades from fourth primary to third secondary on its website with the start of the second semester, indicating that the educational and training materials include the main concepts in a simplified manner that contributes to establishing deep understanding and training students on the vocabulary and types of questions. The Ministry was also keen to train Students are able to solve the tests by providing a large number of questions at the end of each curriculum unit. These questions vary to measure the targeted learning outcomes at all cognitive levels, from remembering and simple understanding to deep understanding.
In this context, the Minister appreciated the efforts of the workers of the Central Administration for Curriculum Development and the directors of all departments to develop academic materials in preparing these materials and electronic training. To ease the burden on parents, he directed directors of educational departments, boards of trustees, parents, and teachers in the governorate to introduce students to educational and training materials on the Ministry’s website in various schools to help them achieve academic achievement.
The Minister also stressed the continuation of implementing school support groups, to reduce the burden on parents, by selecting the best schools in each educational department that includes an amphitheater or theater as a hall suitable for students receiving the groups, and attracting distinguished and famous qualified teachers to teach there. The Ministry also allowed students freedom to choose. For teachers.
The Minister pointed out that with regard to educational channels, the best teachers in the republic have been used in our school channels 1, 2 and 3, which are used in viewing sessions, stressing that their schedules are announced within the school to maximize the students’ benefit from them.
The Minister continued to stress the procedures that maintain the discipline of the educational process, including activating electronic absence, and restricting absence daily to the various educational stages, stressing that there should be no laxity in monitoring any absence of students in schools, and work must also be done to attract students to school within the framework of the various procedures that The Ministry took this step, in addition to the importance of teachers’ regular attendance, directing those in charge of monitoring the Ministry and the directorates to follow up on schools during the school day to ensure control of the educational process within the schools, stressing that he will make surprise tours during the coming period to various governorates to follow up on the regularity of the study. The Minister also directed the speedy delivery of Books for students this week.
The Minister also confirmed that the social protection package announced by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, which included improving teachers’ wages, reflects the extent of the political leadership’s interest in teachers and the education file as it is the Egyptian state’s top priority.
In the context of filling the deficit in the number of teachers, the Minister indicated that there had become a mechanism for selecting teachers, which was based on selecting the most qualified, and the Minister was assured that the new teachers who were successful in the “30,000 Teachers...First Year” competition would be placed in their schools in Qalyubia Governorate.
Dr. Reda Hegazy continued that the announcement of the “30,000 teachers” competition took place at the level of each directorate, provided that the applicants are from the governorate according to its needs, and their appointment goes through several stages to ensure that they possess the necessary skills to succeed in their assigned role, whether educational, technological, or cultural, in a way that ensures Achieving integrity, transparency and justice in selection and according to the needs of each governorate, starting with the applicant passing the organization and management tests in five components, which are specialization, educational, ICT, general culture, and language, and passing through the educational rehabilitation course and the mental and physical training package with the aim of qualifying them for the stage of passing the final training held by a concerned party. In preparation for their appointment in various governorates of the Republic, which directly reflects on the advancement of the educational level of students and the state’s educational system, stressing the importance of the trainee completing the training program and passing the supplementary training exercises held by the concerned authority at a later date for his training.
The Minister also directed the directors of the educational departments in the governorate to provide all means of support to the new school principals within the framework of the presidential initiative “1,000 school principals,” and to transfer expertise to them, follow up on them, and make the most of their abilities and ideas in bringing about development in schools, indicating that these principals are the first to see the desired change in the administration. Schools and improving their performance.
For his part, Major General Abdel Hamid Al-Hagan, Governor of Qalyubia, stressed that the governorate is making every effort to develop the educational process, as work is being done to prepare schools, educational buildings, and the areas surrounding schools, as well as working to reduce densities in schools.
This came in the presence of Major General Ihab Hassan Siraj El-Din, Secretary General of the Governorate, Major General Yousry Salem, Assistant Minister of Education for the Affairs of the General Authority for Educational Buildings, Professor Khaled Abdel Hakam, Head of the Central Administration for Directorate Affairs, Professor Samah Ibrahim, Director of the Directorate of Education in the Governorate, and Dr. Muhammad Al-Fayoumi. Chairman of the Governorate’s Board of Trustees, Parents and Teachers.