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Minister of Education and Technical Education Mohamed Abdel-Latif signed the cooperation agreement with a SPRIX representative, identified as Shinichi, during a visit to the company’s headquarters in Tokyo. Egyptian Ambassador to Japan Ragy El-Etreby attended the signing.
The platform will initially be introduced in several education departments before being gradually expanded nationwide, the ministry said.
It will provide teachers with digital tools to record attendance and absences and continuously monitor students’ academic performance and assessment results. The system is also intended to help schools identify students who require additional support and intervene at an early stage.
The ministry will receive updated educational data directly each day, allowing it to monitor performance indicators, identify challenges, and take measures to improve education quality.
Abdel-Latif described the project as “an important step” in the ministry’s digital transformation and efforts to modernize its monitoring and evaluation systems.
He said the use of technology would “support teachers,” improve student monitoring, and enable the ministry to make decisions based on “accurate and up-to-date data.”
The ministry said the initiative is part of its efforts to establish an integrated national digital system for managing and monitoring education, with a unified framework for tracking attendance, academic performance, and assessments nationwide.
The agreement builds on SPRIX’s growing role in Egypt’s education reforms. In August 2025, the ministry signed an agreement with the Japanese company to develop mathematics and information technology curricula based on Japanese models. SPRIX has since supported a five-year programme to develop mathematics curricula through the third secondary grade.
Egypt has also adopted the Japanese QUREO platform for programming and artificial intelligence instruction for first-year secondary students. By December 2025, the platform had registered around 750,000 students, of whom 236,000 had completed the course.
The curriculum is scheduled to be extended to technical schools in the 2026/2027 academic year.
In April, the ministry, SPRIX, and Hiroshima University signed a separate agreement to introduce financial literacy to secondary school students, further expanding their cooperation beyond mathematics, programming, and artificial intelligence.
The new platform also follows ministry efforts to increase school attendance through regular assessments and closer monitoring. In June, Abdel-Latif said the national attendance rate had risen to 87 percent from 15 percent, citing a UNICEF study.
The proposed system would give the ministry daily data to monitor whether those gains are sustained and identify students requiring early intervention.
The agreement is the latest in a series signed during Abdel-Latif’s visit to Japan. On Thursday, Egypt agreed with the Japan Foundation to introduce Japanese as a second language initially at 10 Egyptian-Japanese Schools from the 2026/2027 academic year.
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