Minister of Education Dr. Tarek Shawki and Cairo governor Khaled Abdel Aal signed a cooperation protocol with the Cooperative Association for pottery, ceramics, and refractories and the National Charitable Investment Fund for Education to establish the Fawakhir Secondary School for Applied Technology in the Masr El-Qadima neighborhood.
The signing ceremony was attended by Deputy Cairo Governor Eng. Jihan Abdel Moneim, Deputy Minister of Education for Technical Education Affairs Dr. Mohammad Megahad, Head of the Technical Education and Equipment Sector Dr. Mohammad Emara, Head of the Central Administration for the Development of Technical Education and Director of the Operational Unit and Management of Applied Technology Schools Dr. Amr Basilah; Chairman of the Cooperative Association for pottery, ceramics, and refractories Sayed Fathallah Sayed Ali; Chairman of Education is Life Fund, several officials of the ministry and the Cairo governorate.
During his speech at the signing ceremony, Dr. Tarek Shawki expressed his happiness and emphasized that the protocol comes within the framework of promoting fruitful cooperation between the Ministry of Education, the Cooperative Association for Poetry and Ceramics, the Cairo governorate, and the Education is Life Fund.
Moreover, Shawki said that the protocol is an implementation of the political leadership’s vision and directives to preserve and revive traditional crafts in Egypt and to support and encourage handicrafts by establishing a technical crafts school to teach high technical skills through effective curricula.
The minister added that, over the past period, the state attached great importance to technical education as it launched the Technical Education 2.0 Program as part of the new development system of Egyptian education, adding that the secret to the success of the applied technology schools experiment in Egypt lies in being an integrated and effective system keeping pace with the world’s best education systems.
Furthermore, the minister said that the vision of all relevant parties must be integrated to continue achieving success and gain social support to provide high-quality technical and technological education and improve the skills of the technical schools’ graduates.
At the end of his speech, the minister praised the effective participation of all relevant authorities and civil society organizations in serving education and supporting the initiatives of the Education Ministry
For his part, Cairo Governor Khaled Abdel Aal asserted that signing a protocol for establishing the first applied technology for pottery manufacturing is a continuation of the revival of traditional crafts to achieve sustainable development in one of Egypt’s oldest industries.
Abdel Aal added that the protocol comes in line with the birth of the new republic in light of Egypt’s vision of 2030 under the leadership of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
Abdel Aal also pointed out that the instructions of the political leadership to establish a crafts school is part of the industrial development process that Egypt is currently witnessing and contributes to creating a new generation of skilled artisans with a modern scientific basis.
Abdel Aal, furthermore, pointed out that the governorate provided a building in the pottery Village for the school to benefit from the surrounding pottery workshops to develop the pottery industry on a scientific basis according to the curricula of the Education Ministry.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Cooperative Association for Poetry and Ceramics Sayed Fathallah thanked President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and all attendees for their efforts to preserve and revive the digital industry. He added that it is an honor for the association to contribute to the education process to graduate new productive cadres.
For his part, Ashraf Mohammad Ezzat, Chairman of the Education is Life Fund, expressed his honor to participate in establishing the first technical school for pottery and ceramics in Egypt and funding the school as part of the state’s plan to revive traditional crafts and create a new generation of talented artisans.
Source: Media department, Cairo Governorate
