Secondary Education Enhancement Project SEEP

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Secondary Education Enhancement Project SEEP

• Dr. Mohsen Abbas
• Ministry of Education
• Egypt

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Introduction

• Secondary education as a gate way to the
  opportunities and benefits of economic and social
  development.
• Key issues facing secondary education in the 21st
  century

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• Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• Secondary education in Egypt between quality and
  inequality
• Pre-tertiary education in Egypt
• Challenges in the secondary education

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Egypts national strategic framework.

• Three policy goals
• Eight strategic approaches

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Strategic goals

• Access
• Quality
• System

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Strategic approaches

• institutionalizing decentralization
• applying the National Standards
• ensuring sustainability and mainstreaming of
  successful practices
• applying school- based reform

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Contd

• strengthening partnerships with civil society,
  private sector and local government
• encouraging innovation and utilization of
  technology
• developing systems that are motivating for
  excellence
• creating a public opinion supportive of
  sustainable development

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Secondary Education Enhancement Project (SEEP)

• SEEP is designed to help operationalize the
  first stages of this program through a
  combination of selected national level and
  targeted school level interventions.

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Main objectives

• Increasing access to general secondary education
  through raising students enrollment percentage
  in general secondary schools from 30 at the
  start of the project to 50 by the end of it
  (currently 40 general 60 technical).
• Providing flexible options for study within and
  between branches of the system (transferability).

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Contd

• Better aligning curricula and assessment with the
  skills needed for the labor market and higher
  education.
• Providing professional development for teachers
  and administrators on new technologies, new
  curricular, assessment and management techniques,
  and strengthening institutional capacity.

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Projects Components

• Component 1
• Improving quality and opportunity of secondary
  education
• Component 2
• Strengthening institutional capacity of secondary
  education sector