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National Strategic Plan for Pre-University Education Reform in Egypt National Strategic Plan For Pre-University Education Reform In Egypt 2007/08 – 2011/12 Excerpts from The Speech of H.E. President Mohammad Hosni Mubarak on the Occasion of Promulgating Teachers Cadre’s Law 21 June 2007 "Continued reform of our educational system is indeed a major and timely prerequisite for Egypt’s development. All our policies and endeavors have to envision the Egyptian citizen, being the engine and ultimate goal of our national development." "Quality improvement is the most pressing challenge to our national action in its entirety. It even goes beyond the quality of education to cover all the other aspects of performance." "We will take further steps to expand access to basic education and upgrade its quality. These include, but are not limited to, the development of technical education and vocational training centers, promotion of Public- Private Partnerships, and involvement of the civil society in the educational sector. We will also enlarge the scope of decentralization in managing the educational process at governorate-level and beyond; and we believe that we are taking the right way towards goal attainment." Preface by His Excellency Prof. Dr. Yousry El Gamal Minister of Education One crucial reality in Egypt is the firm belief of the political leadership that education is a democratic human right for all the Egyptian citizenry; and that it is the gateway to progress, engine of development, and instrument for the state to improve the quality of life for the entire society. This reality manifests itself in a set of important historical documents which constitute the foundation of any genuine national action to reform education in Egypt. These are: • The Electoral Program of His Excellency President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, 2005: In his electoral program, His Excellency the President presented an all-inclusive vision for reforming the multifarious aspects of socio-economic, cultural, and political life in Egypt. Education reform was at the heart of that vision. The President’s program covered all aspects of education, including up-grading teachers’ socio-economic and professional status - through the enactment of a Special Cadre for the teaching practice - school construction; creation of an autonomous National Authority of Educational Quality Assurance and Accreditation; a greater focus on remote areas and pro-poor educational policies to ensure equal access to quality education. • Government mandate made by His Excellency the Prime Minister at the People’s Assembly: His Excellency the Prime Minister presented the implementing plan to accomplish the Presidential election program, reaffirming the special significance of education in the government’s action plan. • NDP’s Policy Papers: The NDP has, throughout its successive conferences since 2002, produced a number of strategic papers on education reform, reflecting the ruling party’s vision for reforming Egypt’s education. • Best practices, previous experiences, reports, and plans at the Ministry of Education. • Reports of Egyptian Councils and Educational Bodies: recommendations of the National Specialized Councils, studies and recommendations of the People's Assembly and the Shoura Council, teacher syndicate studies, and research. • International Education initiatives; international agreements that Egypt is committed to, reports and studies of international agencies. In light of its historical emphasis on education, Egypt has successfully established the infrastructure for the largest educational network in our region. This is evidenced by the fact that gross enrollment rates (GER) in basic education are fast approaching the international average. Now, Egypt is, more than ever, predisposed to focus on education quality, without compromising access, to ensure equal opportunities to education for all. V National Strategic Plan for Pre-University Education Reform in Egypt (2007/08 - 2011/12) Two historic events can attest to the ongoing change in Egypt, with a view to achieve a paradigm shift in Egypt’s education quality: First, the establishment of the National Authority of Educational Quality Assurance and Accreditation. The founding Law No. 82 of 2006 provides a framework for this authority to start as soon as practicable. Second, promulgation of the Special Cadre Law and the related establishment of a professional academy, coaching for teachers’ professional development needs on the basis of crystal-clear and objective norms. The cadre and academy have been realized through amending certain provisions of the Law of Education No. 139 of 1981 by way of Law No. 155 of 2007. In view of the foregoing, and with the magnanimous support of our political leadership, our Ministry feels duty-bound to pursue its endeavors towards a comprehensive reform of Egypt’s Pre-university education, at all levels of the system. It is, therefore, my singular honor to present the five – year National Strategic Plan For Pre-University Education Reform in Egypt (2007/08 – 2011/12), which reflects the electoral program of His Excellency the President and the citizenry’s aspirations for better education. It has taken almost 18 months to construct the plan, following the issuance of "the National Framework for Education Policies in Egypt" in March 2006 and setting up the Policy and Strategic Planning Unit within the Ministry by Ministerial Decree No. 97 of 23 March, 2006. This National Strategic Plan for Education is the fruit of multi-disciplinary team work. It reflects all aforementioned foundations, and constitutes a new educational philosophy, themes, and features. It includes clear programs, specific objectives and modalities, with accurate time-frames and costing requirements. With this in mind, we sincerely hope that the paradigm shift we plan to achieve will be realized in all the three domains of reform, namely, access, quality, and system efficiency, and will effectively contribute to economical, cultural, and social development in Egypt. The Ministry of Education has received every possible material and moral support from the government and the NDP throughout the process of building this Strategic Plan. This was crystallized in the initial approval of the Strategic Plan by the Cabinet in its meeting on April 17, 2007. Another boost was the approval of the plan by the Governors' Council on May 16, 2007. The plan has been also widely discussed in the Shoura Council on September 12, 2007. This, in itself, has motivated the working teams to exert the utmost effort to complete the process of strategic planning with excellence. We cannot fail to place on record our appreciation for the support provided by the civil society, the business community, and educational leaders at all levels. The Ministry of Education also appreciates the unrelenting technical efforts exerted by its own Policy and Strategic Planning Unit personnel who have shown a high level of professionalism. Likewise, special thanks are due to the national working groups both within and outside the Ministry. Research and analysis included in international and national reports and studies, provision of focus groups with the stakeholders and designing the programs and statistical models are but some examples of such sincere national efforts. More than 200 members participated in the specialized and multi-disciplinary teams, with a total of 230,000 working hours. VI It is with profound gratitude that we refer here to the fine technical support provided by the IIEP of the UNESCO whose highly efficient team has contributed to the capacity building of our national working groups. By the same token, we appreciate the contributions made by other international partners including UN specialized agencies and development agencies working in Egypt who have sincerely supported and strengthened our national efforts. Because this five-year Strategic Plan provides a conceptual framework of action, and is tantamount to a national road-map to education reform, it is expected to render any partnership with the international development community or with the Egyptian private and cooperative sectors or with the civil society effective, well-calculated and transparent. This, of course, is to be buttressed by clearer indicators of monitoring and evaluation, accountability, and more precise definition of roles and responsibility. The plan is set to achieve three major objectives: 1) Higher quality of education; 2) Enhanced system efficiency, institutionalized decentralization, and community participation; and 3) Equitable access to education. Guided by these objectives, the working teams have successfully developed: 1) Egyptian Analysis and Projection Model (ANPRO), which assisted in calculating the cost and funding of the various components of education reform in Egypt; and 2) Twelve priority programs, each of which has its own general and operational objectives, targets and related activities, together with time-frame and line item estimates. Implementation on the ground will be decentralized to the governorates, educational districts, down to the school level. Therefore, the National Strategic Plan should be seen as a general framework of action, through which plan implementation will be carried out by local administration units. Immediate technical support will be provided to the governorates so as to help them set their priorities and tailor their own plans to be in conformity with the National Strategic Plan. Program-based costing is used to cope with performance budgeting, as a preliminary step to moving from Financial Chapters
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