Farouk El Baz: Egypt Needs Social Reform to Develop Education

By: Ibrahim Eldeeb

 CAIRO, Dec. 18 (SEE) - Egypt's outstandingscientist Dr. Farouk El Baz, who partakes in the fourth edition of 'Egypt Can'Conference, said that social reform is highly required to develop the educationhere.

Baz was addressing a session

during the two-day conference, held in Hurghada and inaugurated by Immigration

Minister Nabila Makram.

The Egyptian scientist noted that

the technical education in Egypt was better than nowadays from 60 years ago,

pointing out that the state neglected it after the key problems that appeared

in the ordinary education.

"This ignoration led some teachers to take advantage of the

educational system's corruption, a matter which has a negative impact

overall," he stated.

Earlier on Monday, Makram opened

the conference with the participation of 28 Egyptian scientists and experts,

who are working abroad. Egypt Can conferences aim to develop a plan for the

pre-university course.

They also target to benefit from

the expertise of these scientists to improve the quality of education in their

homeland