Project Vision

To contribute effectively to the implementation of the strategic plans for developing higher education through competitive mechanisms to achieve the excellence of Egyptian HEIs by reaching international standards.
Project Mission
To establish mechanisms that have effective management and transparency to finance, support, monitor and assess implementation to ensure the sustainability of the competitive projects that reform higher education, starting with the grassroots of educational institutions to achieve educational quality, efficiency, and effectiveness at universities and HEIs.  This is to be achieved through improving management systems, organizational restructuring, academic enhancement, and community participation and aiming at qualifying graduates to meet the requirements of the job market and to compete at the regional and international levels.

Strategic Goal

To support the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of higher education, raising its quality and relevance through competitive projects submitted by government HEIs and other units within the priorities of the strategic reform plans.

Project Objectives

1. Creating a competitive environment to support the development of HEIs (academic departments, faculties, universities, and MOHE).
2. Encouraging decentralization (self-initiation)  for sustainable development of the educational quality.
3. Increasing the capacity of HEIs and the academic community to assimilate  modern scientific specializations and innovative interdisciplinary domains..
4. Strengthening linkages and integration between HEIs , community, industry, and the job market.
5. Supporting and developing Management Information Systems (MIS) in HEIs.
6. Increasing the benefits from infldgormation sources, laboratories, and available infrastructure.
7. Encouraging the use of modern technology in teaching and learning, and the production of scientific materials.
8. Building the capacities of university and HEI staff members through the acquisition of necessary basic skills to manage and implement improvement and reform plans.
9. Cooperating with enhancement projects within PMU to accomplish the strategic plans to improve HE system.

Project Achievements

158 competitive projects were funded in various specializations within HEIs, with a total cost of $13.32 million to improve competitive capacities among staff and support the reinforcement of quality in the following fields: management, developing academic programs, training, information technology, developing new teaching methods, and stimulate taking initiative among staff members. The following graphs illustrate the distribution of HEEPF funded projects according to specialization and domains.

The project played an important role in reforming HEIs through a wide range of enhancement projects. Projects were funded in 90 university faculties, five TCs, and the MOHE. The main focus was on the undergraduate students, whereby 121,722 students benefited directly, while 89,899 students benefited indirectly from the HEEPF funded projects.

In addition to the undergraduate students, some projects addressed post-graduate students, staff members, teaching assistants, technicians, and employees within management departments of university and educational institutions. Other beneficiaries included graduates, practitioners, and community, and service providers of all types. The following graph illustrates the number of direct and indirect stakeholders of all categories.

The funding of competitive projects has resulted in the following:

• Establishing five new graduate programs.
• Establishing 35 new post graduate programs.
• Developing and modernizing 509 courses.
• Developing bylaws for 10 graduate programs.
• Developing bylaws for 44 post graduate programs.
• Preparing 453 courses in electronic format.
• Preparing 155 lab experiments using simulation and virtual labs.
• Establishing and developing 122 labs through 122 projects that include 51 computer labs and 71 specialized ones.
• Developing and modernizing information and communication resources through 16 projects.
• Developing and modernizing information resources and libraries through 7 projects.
• Establishing 59 specialized centers within universities.
• Establishing 15 internal quality assurance systems in universities through eight projects in nine universities.
• Developing and organizationally restructuring nine management systems in universities.
• Authoring and publishing 57 scientific researches.
• Holding 39 cooperation protocols with community institutions.
• Establishing 64 specialized units to ensure the sustainability of project outcomes.