Central
Education is highly centralised. Central Government is responsible for:
- Education policy
- Strategy, including Egypt Vision 2030.
- E-Learning Portal
- Government schools, including Experimental Language schools.
- Regulation of private schools.
- Basic Education, primary and preparatory.
- Secondary Education.
- Post-Secondary Education.
Regional
Since 2009, plans have been made to decentralise certain lines of funding and planning for capital equipment and infrastructure, in all governorates, all the way to school level, in the case of smaller units of capital equipment, or levels higher than the school for items such as new infrastructure.
Regional authorities are otherwise responsible for enforcing the measures and policies stipulated by central government.
Local
Village popular councils are called upon to implement steps to combat illiteracy[1]
[1]Interview required to determine level of local authority involvement in education.
Responsible ministries/bodies :
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Higher Education
Ministry of State for Scientific Research
Sources: Consult the official website available at: http://www.egy-mhe.gov.eg/ (AR).
See Ministry of Education, National Strategic Plan For Pre-University Education Reform In Egypt, 2007/98 2001/12, available at: http://planipolis.iiep.unesco.org/upload/Egypt/EgyptStrategicPlanPre-universityEducation.pdf (EN).
UCLG, GOLD, Egypt- Country Profile, cit., UCLG, Global Observatory on Local Democracy and Decentralization, Local Government Finance: The Challenges of the 21st Century. Second Global Report on Decentralization and Local Democracy (GOLD), 2010, available at: www.cities-localgovernments.org/gold/Upload/gold_report/gold_report_en.pdf, p. 6 (EN).
