#preparatory education
More than 35 percent of students between the ages of 12 and 15 in Egypt do not know how to read or write, a report commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Egyptian Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform has revealed. The number of illiterate students of 10-years of age and older in the Egyptian school system stood at 26 percent when last surveyed in 2013. Enrollment in primary education has been in decline for several years, dropping to a little over…