Shahin urges governoment to eliminate private tuition

The member of the supreme body of the Conservative Party and the former Secretary of the Education Committee in Shura Council, Ibrahim Shahin, stressed that his party adopts the idea of eliminating the private tuition with unconventional tactics, through raising the teachers' salaries, so that the teacher can live a decent life without private tuition, followed by the criminalization of these lessons, noting that the numbers of the teachers who give private tuition are very small, and that the owners of tutoring centers are not teachers.

Shahin indicated the need to eliminate student density in the classrooms, and eliminating redundancies in the curriculum that require more time more than school time, forcing students to resort to the private tuition as well as the teacher cannot explain the lesson and its applications in the classroom.

He explained that the Egyptian Constitution obliged the State to increase the education budget each year until it reaches 4%, and so far we have not reached that percentage, expressing his support for the statements of the Minister of Education, Dr. Tarek Shawki, who called for the availability of free education with special terms and conditions and not for everyone.

Concerning new high school system, Shahin said that this system is very good, and actually will eliminate a large proportion of fraud and leaking of examinations, pointing out that his party believes that this system calls student to understand and not conservation and indoctrination, and that this will help the student to study hard to reach the correct answer in less period.

He stressed that the Conservative Party's administration has appointed him to  reshape the education committee within the party, adding that the committee will include many of the leaders and competencies that may be new progress in all the educational process development, which include basic and technical education as well as the university education.

Concerning the evaluation of technical education in Egypt, he pointed out that it  became a store for those who are not absorbed by the general secondary schools, and the Egyptian society's look for technical education is very low, despite being an important and great weapon in any country, calling for the need to link technical education with labor market and the needs of society.

Shahin stressed the need to maintain the dual education schools due to its successful in all standards, pointed out that the business leaders are looking to the graduates of these schools because they are eligible for industrial work.