{"id":1575,"date":"2006-09-04T18:49:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T18:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2006-09-04T18:49:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T18:49:53","slug":"2006-9-4-back-to-school-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Back to school"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>School in Egypt starts these days, and the local papers are quoting a study conducted by the Ministry of Education that estimates annual spending on private lessons to have reached some LE13 billion. This does not even include private lessons for university students.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This turn-over makes the private lesson industry one of the largest sectors of the Egyptian economy, I guess. For comparison, the Egyptian construction industry is not much heavier. (It&#8217;s amazing how much money Egyptian households are able to mobilize given the official GPD per capita.)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the government tries to attract private investments under public-private partnerships to build 50 new elementary and secondary schools. As part of his presidential campaign promises, Mubarak promised 3,500 new schools until 2011.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>However, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard of newly built schools financed by international donors that 12 months after their inauguration are falling apart, as no funds and capacities exist for maintenance.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wondering what over 700,000 civil servants working in the administration of Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s educational system are actually doing. They are the true obstacle to reform in this sector.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>School in Egypt starts these days, and the local papers are quoting a study conducted by the Ministry of Education that estimates annual spending on private lessons to have reached some LE13 billion. This does not even include private lessons for university students.<\/p>\n<p>This turn-over makes the private lesson industry one of the largest sectors of the Egyptian economy, I guess. For comparison, the Egyptian construction industry is not much heavier. (It&#8217;s amazing how much money Egyptian households are able to mobilize given the official GPD per capita.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the government tries to attract private investments under public-private partnerships to build 50 new elementary and secondary schools. As part of his presidential campaign promises, Mubarak promised 3,500 new schools until 2011.<\/p>\n<p>However, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard of newly built schools financed by international donors that 12 months after their inauguration are falling apart, as no funds and capacities exist for maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wondering what over 700,000 civil servants working in the administration of Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s educational system are actually doing. They are the true obstacle to reform in this sector.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}