Government prepares to develop applied technology for communication school

Government prepares to develop applied technology for communication school

The El-Shaheed Amr Moustafa Industrial Secondary School for Girls in Nasr City will be developed and renamed to become the WE Joint School of Applied Technology for Communication and Information Technology.

The school's development was put into effect by a joint cooperation protocol signed, on Wednesday, by Ministry of Education, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, and Telecom Egypt (TE).

Minister of Education Tarek Shawky said that the system of applied technology schools was launched in September 2018 by the Ministry. It aims to create an integrated educational system capable of developing Egypt's technical education to match the best technical education systems in the world.

The minister added that the protocol signed on Wednesday will see the launch of the first applied technology school in the academic year 2020/2021. It will also establish an extended partnership between the Ministry of Education and TE.

Meanwhile, Minister of Communication and Information Technology Amr Talaat said that the protocol comes under the Ministry's strategy of digital transformation and to build a digital Egypt.

The cooperation protocol with the Ministry of Education and TE aims to provide qualified and trained technical professionals in the field of information and communications technology (ICT).

The professionals will, in turn, receive