Knowledge

Leading the knowledge society in knowledge production dissemination and application

Excellence and Competition

Fostering quality, efficiency and relevance in Higher Education and research

Leading Development

Defining and creating new dimensions for development and improving economic and social growth

Creativity and Innovation

Establishing centers of scientific and technological excellence in Higher Education and Research Institutions

The project aims to create the conditions fundamental to improving the quality and efficiency of the higher education system in Egypt through legislative reform, institutional restructuring, and establishment of independent quality assurance mechanisms and monitoring systems.

Component 1: The Global Development of the Governmental Management and the Relevance of the HE System.

Component 2: Improving the Quality and Relevance of the Higher Education.

Component 3: Improving the Quality and Relevance of the Mid-level Technical Education

The specific activities to be supported by this component include:

• Reforming legislation governing the Egyptian higher education.
• Rationalizing funding allocation mechanism.
• Establish the National Quality Assurance Council (NQAC).and to be provided with the necessary tools to built its abilities
• Capacity Building and Management Training.
• Establishing a Higher Education Enhancement Project Fund (HEEPF).
• Providing grants from HEEPF to the higher education institutions to establish a sustainable competitive mechanism among Egyptian universities and Technical Colleges (TCs).

The specific activities to be supported by this component include:

• Establishing an integrated computer and network infrastructure to achieve a hyper network.
• Training of faculty and staff to develop their competencies in using the education technology into their learning methodology.
• Operating a system that links the libraries of the Egyptian universities

The specific activities to be supported by this component include:

• Refurbishing the old structure to be consistent with the international standards.
• Consolidating the Mid Technical Institutions (MTIs) into Technical Colleges (TCs).
• Curriculum design and instructors training.
• Modernizing the equipments including the information technology equipments.
• Strengthening the academic administration and management through training.

• Higher Education Enhancement Project (HEEPF),
• Information and Communications Technology Project (ICTP),
• Egyptian Technical Colleges Project (ETCP),
• Faculty of Education Project (FOEP),
• Faculty Leaders Development Project (FLDP),
• Quality Assurance and Accreditation Project (QAAP).

In August 2004, the priorities of the strategic plan have been modified to cope with the requirements of quality assurance and accreditation as well as the governmental efforts to enhance the higher education and scientific research. In this direction, two extra paths have been added. The first one is the enhancement of the post graduate studies and scientific research. The second one is giving more attention the students’ activities.

Because of the dynamic nature of the enhancement strategy which requires revising the priorities of each phase, the Strategic Planning Unit (SPU), which follows the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), has been established in order to assure the sustainability of the planning and evaluation during the overall lifecycle of the Enhancement project. Moreover, a new Students Activities Project started as it is part of the requirements for accreditation like the scientific research and post graduate studies.