From 16-18 February 2025, a high-level delegation from the UK visited Egyptian universities: Ain Shams College, and European Universities in Egypt (EUE); with a deliberate go to to New Cairo Technological College, to discover potential collaborations between the 2 international locations.
“Over the course of three enriching days, the schooling group in Egypt led a better schooling mission that was launched within the New Administrative Capital, below the patronage of the Minister of Increased Training via the Supreme Council of Universities and the Egyptian Bureau for Cultural and Instructional Affairs in London in collaboration with the British Council in Egypt, and the help of the British Embassy,” Heba ElZein, director of schooling on the British Council in Egypt informed The PIE.
The delegation comprised representatives from prestigious UK universities, together with Sheffield Hallam College, Loughborough College, the College of Essex, the College of East Anglia, the College of Exeter, and the College of Chester.
Universities UK Worldwide representatives had been additionally in attendance, with Anouf El-Daher, coverage officer for Africa and Center East at UUKi, presenting on the British Embassy in Cairo and British Council Egypt, highlighting the worth of worldwide collaboration and the potential for long-term, mutually helpful, EU-Egypt schooling relationships.
“Over three days, we visited larger schooling establishments throughout Egypt, gaining helpful insights into the native panorama and exploring alternatives for deeper collaboration. This mission allowed us to interact with key stakeholders, perceive the evolving larger schooling panorama in Egypt, and witness the impression of UK-Egypt partnerships firsthand,” a LinkedIn submit from UUKi learn.
Over the course of three enriching days, the schooling group in Egypt led a better schooling mission that was launched within the New Administrative Capital
Heba ElZein, British Council
The mission provided quite a few networking alternatives, in addition to joint conferences for Egyptian universities wishing to cooperate and talk about alternatives with their British counterparts.
The delegation’s major focus was to foster educational change, set up worldwide college department campus alternatives, and strengthen analysis collaborations. Some of the vital outcomes of the go to was the signing of a number of Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) between UK and Egyptian universities.
Throughout that high-profile participation, three MoUs had been signed between the College of Essex and Ain Shams College, the College of East Anglia and Ain Shams College, and the College of Sheffield Hallam and the British College in Egypt.
These agreements are anticipated to facilitate joint packages, college exchanges, and shared analysis initiatives within the coming years.
College students in Egypt present a powerful curiosity in TNE because the UK-affiliated packages provide tuition charges from £800 to £13,500, relying on the partnership mannequin. And as a result of financial and forex challenges, Egyptians are more and more more likely to decide to check in Egypt on a TNE mannequin, in addition to inbound college students to the nation, primarily from Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Nigeria, and Iraq.
Thus, with a inhabitants of round 111 million, and a youthful median age of 24.3, Egypt leads the MENA area in TNE enrolments with 27,865 college students in 2022-2023, making it the fifth largest UK TNE host nation globally.
Egypt has emerged as a number one host of UK transnational schooling college students within the MENA area, and the UK stays Egypt’s largest accomplice in larger schooling.
This delegation’s go to is a part of a broader initiative to additional deepen these ties and supply Egyptian college students with better entry to high-quality British schooling.
