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 doable collaborations between the 2 nations.
“Over the course of three enriching days, the training crew in Egypt led the next training mission that was launched within the New Administrative Capital, below the patronage of the Minister of Larger Schooling by means of 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 training on the British Council in Egypt advised 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 have 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 training relationships.
“Over three days, we visited larger training establishments throughout Egypt, gaining precious insights into the native panorama and exploring alternatives for deeper collaboration. This mission allowed us to interact with key stakeholders, perceive the evolving larger training panorama in Egypt, and witness the influence of UK-Egypt partnerships firsthand,” a LinkedIn submit from UUKi learn.
Over the course of three enriching days, the training crew in Egypt led the next training mission that was launched within the New Administrative Capital
Heba ElZein, British Council
The mission supplied 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 main focus was to foster tutorial change, set up worldwide college department campus alternatives, and strengthen analysis collaborations. Probably the most 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 have 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 applications, school exchanges, and shared analysis initiatives within the coming years.
College students in Egypt present a robust curiosity in TNE because the UK-affiliated applications supply tuition charges from £800 to £13,500, relying on the partnership mannequin. And attributable to financial and forex challenges, Egyptians are more and more more likely to decide to review 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 training college students within the MENA area, and the UK stays Egypt’s largest associate in larger training.
This delegation’s go to is a part of a broader initiative to additional deepen these ties and supply Egyptian college students with larger entry to high-quality British training.
