En estos días se ha publicado el Informe de Revisión de la Educación Superior de Egipto preparado por un equipo integrado por expertos de la OCDE y el Banco Mundial. (Ver abstract y tabla de contenido más abajo).
Los miembros del equipo son: Michael Gallagher (Australia), Rapporteur, Executive Director of the Go8 Australian Universities; José Joaquin Brunner (Chile) Director of the Center for Comparative Education Policy, and UNESCO Chair for Comparative Higher Education Policies, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile; Elena Carrero-Perez (Spain), Country Manager for Egypt at the European Training Foundation (ETF); Eva Egron-Polak (Canada), Secretary-General of the International Association of Universities (IAU); Francisco Marmolejo (Mexico), Executive Director, Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC) and Vice President for Western Hemispheric Programs at University of Arizona; Aims McGuinness (United States), Senior Associate, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS); Sam Mikhail (Canada), Professor Emeritus, Ryerson University, Toronto; Ian Whitman (OECD Secretariat), Head of Programme for Co-operation with Non Member Economies; Ernesto Cuadra (World Bank), Senior Education Specialist, Middle East and North Africa Region; Ahmed Dewidar (World Bank) Senior Education Specialist with the Middle East and North Africa Region; and Jamil Salmi (World Bank), Tertiary Education Co-ordinator. Overall support and co-ordination was provided by Mihaylo Milovanovitch and Deborah Fernandez from the OECD Secretariat and Rasha Sharif, Director, Strategic Planning Unit, Ministry of Higher Education, Egypt.
Bajar el Informe en su versión inglesa (solo para lectura) aquí 5,3 MB
Bajar la Presentaciónd el Informe (marzo de 2010) aquí 830 KB
Reviews of National Policies for Education: Higher Education in Egypt 2010
— OECD, The World Bank —
In recent years, the Government of Egypt has driven major reforms for modernising the country. While the success of this effort depends heavily on the quality of education and skills of the population, Egypt’s higher education system has remained largely unchanged in this context.
Without a fundamental reform of the sector the country will face difficulties in improving its competitiveness in an increasingly knowledge-based world, in providing for a larger and more diverse student population, and in reducing social inequalities.
This book represents an independent review of Egypt’s higher education system and focuses on areas in need of attention by policy makers and stakeholders, including system steering and institutional governance; student access to higher education; educational quality and effectiveness; research, development and innovation; and finance. It contains an analysis of the system and valuable recommendations which, taken together, represent a major programme of structural and cultural reform of Egyptian higher education over the decade to 2020.
Reviews of National Policies for Education: Higher Education in Egypt will be of interest to Egyptian policy makers and education professionals, as well as others involved in education policy and research.
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Executive summary
The Egyptian higher system is not serving the country’s current needs well, and without far-reaching reform it will hold back Egypt’s economic and social progress.
To build and modernise the nation, the Government of Egypt has driven major reforms in macro-economic policy to attract foreign direct investment, monetary policy including floating the Egyptian pound, taxation reform, trade liberalisation including tariff reductions and international trade agreements, and public sector reform including privatisation of state-owned enterprises.
The higher education system remains unreconstructed in this context. It continues to produce largely for the economy of the past, and community expectations of it reflect outdated understandings of its role.
There is an imperative for fundamental reform of the Egyptian higher education system. This imperative arises from the combination of emerging pressures and accumulated dysfunctions.
Complete executive summary
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Table of contents
Executive summary
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Egypt and its Educational System: An Overview .
Chapter 3. Development Strategy
Chapter 4. System Steering and Institutional Governance
Chapter 5. Student Access to Higher Education
Chapter 6. Educational Quality and Effectiveness
Chapter 7. Research, Development and Innovation
Chapter 8. Finance
Annex 8A. Resource Diversification Matrix for Public Tertiary
Chapter 9. Reform Implementation