Misr University is a new concept and a leading model for technological education

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Misr University is a new concept and a leading model for technological education

Among the 7 new technological universities, Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, agreed to start studying there for the first time with the beginning of the new academic year, Misr International University of Technology comes as a unique and pioneering model for targeted plans to develop technical education and link it to industry, as the university was based on the foundations and pillars And the equipment and laboratories of the technological complexes that the state adopted years ago, and funded by the Education Development Fund of the Council of Ministers, as well as the extension of its activities to separate parts of the regions of the Republic. Dr. Ahmed El-Hewy, Secretary-General of the Education Development Fund, says that the new university will provide a modern model for technical education in Egypt, starting with the student from the post-preparatory stage up to the Ph.D. It has a great experience in the field of technical and technological education, and the complexes will benefit by placing it under high-level academic supervision. The idea of establishing integrated technological education complexes as a pioneering model for the development of technical education, which began to be implemented for the first time in 2009, basically aims to link the technical disciplines in each technological complex with the economic and industrial activities prevailing in the surrounding area. Consists of (3) years + two years + (two years), in addition to a vocational training center that serves the surrounding industry, and according to the establishment of the university, it became possible for the student to reach the stage of a professional doctorate in technological sciences. The multiplicity of international partnerships is the most prominent feature of the complexes that are ready To turn into a university, where work began from the Amiriya Complex in Cairo in cooperation with the British Edexcel Corporation (currently Pearson Corporation), and studies began in 2009, followed by the Fayoum Complex in cooperation with the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, and studies began in 2012, then it was followed by the Assiut Complex in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. German education, and studies began in 2017, and finally the Abu Ghalib complex in cooperation with the region

Italian Emilia-Romagna, and studies began in 2018. According to a report issued by the Education Development Fund, the integrated educational complexes of the Fund offer specializations in electricity technology, photovoltaic cells, mechanical manufacturing technology, mechanics technology, automotive technology, ready-made clothing technology, refrigeration and air-conditioning technology, and information technology. related to these majors according to the merits system.

The report indicates that with the state adopting the idea of establishing technological universities since the issuance of Resolution No. 72 of 2019 regarding their establishment, and in line with the state’s policy in developing and supporting technological education, the idea of transforming the complexes into an integrated technological university came under the authority of the Education Development Fund, as it falls within its competencies to contribute to Establishing distinguished cooperative and private universities and schools that do not primarily aim to make a profit, as well as universities that are based on voluntary efforts or undertaken by associations or civil institutions.