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The paper aims at presenting the religious education at the German School in Cairo (DEO) as one of the very few examples of schools offering interreligious education in Egypt. In order to give the cooperative religious education at DEO a fair examination,
Date of source: Monday, October 3, 2022
The “Damanhour Shubra Official Language School” separated 50 Christian students in fourth grade and placed them in a single class apart from their Muslim colleagues, in Shubrā al-Khayma, al-Qalyūbiyya. The situation came to light after a list of these 50 Christian students was circulated.
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I am Yassir, I am Eritrean and an engineer by profession, and I am the primary director of the Al-Tani branch. I also designed the website for the school, and I am in charge of another branch that we have, the Faysal Sudanese Technical school in Cairo which was opened in the year 2021-2022. The...
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Q: Can you introduce yourself?
A: My name is Nichola, I am from South Sudan. I am the principal of El-Matariya Adventist Sudanese School. We are finding many challenges. The main challenge to our school was COVID-19. Our students lost one semester, and then after the summer of 2020, we wanted to do...
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Q: Can you give me some information about the origins of this school?
A: The school was founded in September 2016 and the founder is Mrs. Cecilia and her husband. The school used to be in South Sudan, and due to the war in 2016, they were forced to move to Cairo. So in December 2016, they came...
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Q: Can you give me a brief description of your learning center?
A: This is Nile Modern School Academy, a refugee school. Here we have refugee students from South Sudan, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zimbabwe, and many other countries. This is a community school, we help refugees who have fled...
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Q: What is the school fee you charge?
A: We charge 2,600 Egp per year, but that does not cover the expenses. The total costs are around 7,500 EgP per student per month.
Q: Is the demand higher than the places offered?
A: Of course, the school is full, and we already do shifts. Since COVID-19 we...
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Q: Can you introduce yourself?
A: My name is Envy Baptist. I am a teacher and I am here now working in the embassy at the Cultural Department. We coordinate mostly the cases of all our students, making sure that they are admitted to Egyptian public universities. We have around 8.500 South-Sudanese...
Date of source: Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Mohammed el-Shafei is the Education Officer at the UNHCR. He describes the great efforts Egyptian authorities are making to provide education to refugees. One needs to distinguish between refugees from countries to which the Four Freedoms Agreement applies; the right to property, the right to work...
Date of source: Thursday, December 16, 2021
UNHCR commended Egypt for affirming its commitment to expand the services available to refugees and asylum seekers in the health sector and ensure sustained access to opportunities in the education sector at the High-Level Officials meeting on 14th and 15th December 2021.