The minister of Education Tarek Shawki announced that the current and public Egyptian educational system is to set to end by 2026. The news, that a new educational reform which will spare class teachers the trouble of correcting examinations and which will gradually substitute the current system, was disclosed at a group Iftar at the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo and was reported by Egypt Independent. Shawki states that the high school exams, which presently cause a great deal of pressure and stress for the students, are to be changed with an evaluation that spans over three years in order to measure the understanding of students more fairly. “Paper books will be cancelled as well,” Shawki added. Books in the new reforming system are to be replaced with tablets which will be provided for by the Ministry of Education. Tablets, which will be given for free, in contrast with the required books that presently cost 3 billion LE, will operate through school networks or on pre-saved data. Thus, the performance of the tablets will be of equal efficiency in all cities regardless of the quality of their internet connectivity…
