Ministry plans to introduce pre-university foundation year

Higher education officials in Egypt are planning to introduce a pre-university foundation year to help students of the liberal arts find jobs, but not all education experts think such a year is needed, writes Ismail Salama for Al-Fanar Media.

Ayman Ashour, the minister of higher education and scientific research, recently told lawmakers that his ministry was preparing a draft law for a foundation year after high school which would let students enrol in specific programmes at both public and private universities.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi triggered a wave of academic and political discussions with his recent remarks about universities’ faculties of arts, business and law. The debates were about whether these faculties and their courses needed to be cancelled, merged or modernised to align better with the labour market.
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