Abdul Latif: Measures to reduce the number of high school committees and disrupt cheating tools
Mohamed Abdel Latif, Minister of Education and Technical Education, during the plenary session of the Senate, headed by Counselor Abdel Wahab Abdel Razek; By commenting on the discussion requests and questions of the representatives, during the session to clarify the ministry’s vision and its mechanisms regarding a number of files related to controlling the educational system.
Abdul Latif explained that the ministry is completing the state’s vision 2030, indicating that any minister who assumes the ministry’s era is committed to By implementing the state’s strategic plan to develop education, indicating that in parallel appropriate solutions and mechanisms are being developed to overcome the challenges facing the development of the educational process, the most important of which are student densities and the deficit in numbers. Teachers.
In response to questions about the issuance of the ministerial decision regulating the work of study rules, examinations, and evaluation in all schools in which students study and grant certificates of international, foreign, or of a special nature (international) within the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Minister affirmed the commitment of all schools. Licensed to teach curricula that are international, foreign, or of a special nature (international) by teaching the subjects of the Arabic language, religious education, social studies, and religious education, explaining that international schools already teach the subjects of the Arabic language and studies, and the change that occurred is that they were included within the total; So that the student is interested in their studies, stressing that any student inside Egypt must know well the history of his country and master his Arabic language, the “mother language.”
With regard to the challenge of poor literacy among some students in the first grades, the Minister explained that this The challenge is due to several obstacles facing the educational process, the most important of which was the high class densities, which resulted in the teacher being unable to perform his role in the desired manner. He stressed that Egypt has the best teachers and they have been trained and qualified to the highest standards. level, explaining that the Ministry is working through a number of mechanisms to improve reading and learning among students in the first grades.
With regard to filling the teacher shortage, the Minister confirmed that the deficit in all schools in the Republic has been filled by more than 90%, Stressing that there is no shortage of teachers of basic subjects in any classroom at the level of schools in the Republic, he explained that the field reality is constantly monitored and the percentage of any shortage is monitored on an ongoing basis and work is done to solve it immediately.
In response to Questions about the mechanisms of “weekly evaluations.” The Minister explained that all education systems in the world have an evaluation system, which is one of the factors that attract students to attend schools, stressing its importance in measuring learning outcomes periodically, noting that a platform is currently being developed to analyze these evaluations. Statistically on a daily basis, which will enable measuring learning outcomes in each semester, allowing any problems in achievement to be addressed early.
In response to how to eliminate the phenomenon of “cheating in secondary exams.” “The Minister indicated that there are approximately 2,000 committees for high school exams nationwide, indicating that the Ministry is currently working on a plan to reduce the number of exam committees and take measures to disrupt electronic cheating methods.
And about language teaching. The Minister confirmed that the teaching of the second foreign language was not canceled, but rather it became a subject outside the total, so that there is an opportunity to teach the first foreign language with a sufficient number of credit hours, which allows students to master it, stressing the existence of initiatives, agreements, and international relations towards enhancing the quality of teaching. The second foreign language, citing the French language, which is taught as the first language in the schools of the National Institutes, which have a long history in education, and the 53 Egyptian private schools that teach the French language as the first language. It was also agreed with the French side to expand the establishment of new schools that teach the language. French as the first language and technical support from the French side.
In response to the implementation of the discipline regulations, the Minister confirmed that it aims to restore the prestige of the teacher and preserve the rights and duties of both the teacher and the student, pointing to continuous communication with those concerned. In the educational process, extensive meetings, discussions and dialogues were held with school principals, teachers and educational departments about the educational reality and the development of appropriate solutions, pointing out that meetings were held with 50% of school principals in Egypt during the past three months, and decisions were taken in cooperation with education leaders.
As for the law on practicing the profession, the minister indicated that the ministry is currently working on it, and it will be presented to Parliament soon.
Counsel Abdel-Wahab Abdel-Razzaq, Chairman of the Senate, presented Thanks to the Minister for presenting the Ministry’s plan to develop the educational process and the efforts made, stressing the Council’s support and cooperation in the coming period, which requires the concerted efforts of all parties and participation in every possible effort that contributes to enhancing and improving the quality of the educational process.
The President of the Council also directed to refer Requests and topics of discussion to the Education and Scientific Research Committee of the Council for consideration and preparation of a report.
