The government is keen on increasing the number of universities and institutes across the country to cope with an expected rise in the number of students in the coming stage, said Minister of Higher Education Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar Sunday. Egypt is seeking to build at least one governmental university in each governorate to reduce the number of students who have to complete their education away from their home towns, Abdel-Ghaffar said as he laid the foundation stone of a Suez University branch in South Sinai. A plan is designed to also upgrade education curricula to meet demands of the labour market, he noted.

• On a separate note the Supreme Council of Universities extends academic year by 3 weeks which means exams could be held in August. Students unwilling to take exams due to concerns over the pandemic are entitled to cancel their exams.

• For the school exams for grades from the fourth primary to the second intermediate level, there will be monthly paper exams that students perform in the school (end of March, end of April, end of May), in the same way as the first round exams, that is, there is one multidisciplinary exam for all subjects, so that a student goes Each classroom to take the exam only one day.

• First and second grades of general secondary, from those who received tablets, their examinations will be from home at the end of each month (March - April - May), so that the three-month exams are the result of the student in the second term, and there will be no end-of-year examinations for the first two grades The second is secondary.

• Third year of general secondary school, their exams will not be held before next July, because the timetable for the academic year will be modified, and thus the general secondary examinations will be posted from June to July, with no parts of the curriculum being deleted, and the examinations will be electronic for all students (regular - repeaters) Houses - Services).