Invest in Education Conference

October 19, 2016

Notice: The conferences shown below have been fully managed and supervised by Dr. Kamal Emam, the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of CTQ company during the period from August 2009 till August 2020 in which he took over the presidency of the Board of Directors of the International Center for Training and Quality Services.

Dr. Marwa Farouk, the Managing Director of CTQ company has also managed all the logistics and supervised the conference team during the implementation of these conferences, during her period of work at the International Center for Training and Quality Services as Director of Training Department and then as the Managing Director of the Center until August 2020.

19 October, 2016

Grand Nile Tower Hotel, Garden City, Cairo

Conference Objectives:

To support and encourage investments to support the quality system in higher education, general education, and technical education.
To determine the mechanisms required to create the appropriate climate for investment in the quality of education.
To stimulate local investment and encourage investment in new educational areas
To set a future vision for the partnership between the state, the private sector and civil society institutions to ensure the quality of investment operations.
To present unconventional models for investing in the quality of education.

Conference themes:

The role of the state in encouraging investment in the quality of education.
Investors’ view of the feasibility of investing in the quality of education· Opportunities and potential areas for investment in the quality of education
The role of the private sector and civil society in supporting investment in the quality of education
Partnership between the state and civil society to ensure the quality of investment operations in education
Challenges and difficulties facing investors in education
Investing in human capital in education
A future vision to improve the investment climate in education

Recommendations:

The importance of maximum speed in bringing about change (a period of no more than 5 years), and this project will be the first national project of the state. (Presidency – Cabinet – Parliament)
The current high school system is outdated and must be radically changed. (The Ministry of Education)
The word “it cannot be affected” should be dropped from any of the current system because the use of this word limits creativity and leads to narrow changes, apparently closed and not performing the desired purpose. (High Education Commission – Media)
Moving from a culture of memorization to a culture of learning – we learn to learn (Ministry of Education – Ministry of Communications)
Technology plays a big role in this – and the teacher becomes a classroom facilitator, not the provider.
Distribution of grades to more than one exam, which has a limited value, with the amendment of the current coordination system and relying on university entrance exams from a neutral side will have a role in the evaluation. (Ministry of Education, Higher Education)
Updating the curricula to keep pace with the latest studies in the developed world and the use of interpretation (Ministry of Education – Supreme Education Council)
Preparing the teachers through intensive courses that produce results according to an engineering sequence and rely on young people from all disciplines in universities. (Education, higher education)
Getting rid of absolute centralization and giving greater powers to local authorities (governorates). (Parliament – Cabinet)
Making change requires sources of funding, but the cost is not the obstacle to bringing about change, and the state alone is not able to solve the education problem and civil society must be engaged. (Finance – Cabinet)

List of Speakers:

1.Prof. Dr. Ebrahim Fawzy

Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Univ. and Ex-Minister of Industry and Investment in Egypt.

2. Prof. Dr. Ashraf Hatem

Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Universities, Egypt.

3. Prof. Dr. Tarek Khalil

President of Nile Univesiry, Egypt

4. Prof. Dr. Hosam Badrawi

Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egyptian thinker and politician

5.Prof. Dr. Mohsen ElMahdy

Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Uinversity

6.Prof. Dr. Essam Khalifa