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The announcement came during a meeting with President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on plans to align the education system with rapid technological change and shifting labour-market needs.
The move expands a policy set to begin next year that adds coding and AI to the curriculum for first-year general secondary students in 2025/26. Abdel-Latif said more than 236,000 students have already enrolled in the new programme, taught via the Japanese Kiryo platform, with graduates receiving certificates accredited by Hiroshima University.
He said extending the subjects to technical schools fits into the government’s push to modernize vocational training as automation reshapes industrial sectors.
Officials also reviewed progress in upgrading technical education, including the expansion of applied technology schools—now 115 nationwide—and growing partnerships with private companies to link classroom learning with workplace skills.
El-Sisi urged officials to continue raising academic and professional standards in technical education to meet industry demand.
Expansion of Japanese schools
The meeting also touched on Japan’s role in Egypt’s education sector. El-Sisi instructed the government to increase the number of Japanese-style schools from 69 to 500 within five years.
In a separate meeting with Japanese education experts, the president praised the model’s emphasis on discipline and efficiency.
The experts said assessments over the past eight years had been positive and commended the performance of Egyptian teachers trained under the programme.
They reaffirmed their commitment to expanding teacher training and supporting curriculum development.
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