Tag Archives: Education

Nominally egalitarian education systems, Kate Pickett writes, can in reality reproduce deep social inequalities. Kate Pickett* I’ve been reading the economist Thomas Piketty’s most recent book, A Brief History of Equality, just published in English. I found it mostly uplifting—pointing as it does to the long progressive arc towards greater equality that has …

Kate Pickett ponders how social scientists can bring structural inequalities to light when media focus on individual lives. Kate Pickett* Epidemiologists and public-health researchers tend to work at scale. Although, as with doctors, our work is aimed at uncovering the causes of disease and death, our focus is a population …

Ahram Online “Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, and United Nation’s Resident Coordinator, Elena Panova, launched a joint platform providing resources to migrants and refugees in Egypt”, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement late on Thursday. “Egypt provided generously basic services like health and education to most …

Egypt Independent Egypt’s Damietta governorate won the UNESCO ‘Learning Cities Award 2021’ for its women empowerment project. The announcement was made on Wednesday at the 5th International Conference on Learning Cities held in Yeonsu, Republic of Korea. “Egypt submitted a project on women’s empowerment under the coronavirus pandemic, among ten …

Following dialogues with people in poverty around the world, the author presents a report to the UN General Assembly on the persistence of poverty. Olivier De Schutter* “Poor children are deprived of their childhoods”, said a woman from a marginalised neighbourhood in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in a dialogue organised …

Egypt Today The Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology signed an MoU with South Korea’s Pusan National University, on Tuesday, to enrol Egyptian students in a master’s program in artificial intelligence within ‘Digital Egypt Builders Initiative’ (DEBI). The initiative, which was launched in 2020, features a one-year program offering …

Doaa Moneim – Ahram Online Ahram Online discussed the role of the private sector in developing Egyptian education with Vincent Emery, President of the ‘University of Hertfordshire Egypt’ (UHE), hosted by the Global Academic Foundation in Egypt. In this interview, he tackled the reason behind choosing the New Administrative Capital …

Egypt Independent Egypt’s Official Gazette published in its issue eight bis (f), President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s decision #86 of 2021, regarding the establishment of a branch of the University of London and the University of Central Lancashire. The first article stipulated that an Egyptian university institution would be established under …

Ahram Online “Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated the Egyptian-Japanese University for Science and Technology in Alexandria’s city of Borg El Arab. He also inaugurated a number of private universities”, the Presidency said on Wednesday. Sisi stressed that the newly announced system for Thanaweya Amma (national secondary school certificate) exams, aim …

Ahram Online France’s visiting Foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian pledged €15 Million ($17 Million) in aid to Lebanon’s schools on Friday. The sum will go to a network of over 50 French and Francophone schools. He said “France will not let the Lebanese youth alone facing the crisis that has …