Abu-Ghazaleh Requests to link the market requirements with the education outcomes

Under the Patronage of His Excellency President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi

Abu-Ghazaleh Requests to link the market requirements with the education outcomes

CAIRO------- April 8, 2015------- HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) and the Chairman of the Arab Organization for Quality Assurance in Education (AROQA), emphasized that the change in education in the Arab world is inevitable after the failure of the current education systems in keeping pace with the historical development by the world today and the introduction of new patterns of digital education.

In his speech at the “The Role of Industry in Economic Development” Conference held Under the Patronage of His Excellency President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi at the University of Mansura, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh stated in front of thousands of scientists and academics “The Arab region is distinguished by the fast growing youth labor force and we must all work to create millions of employment opportunities to achieve balance and raise the quality of knowledge and training field which is linked to the requirements of the labor market pointing out that creating a wide digital educational infrastructure accessible throughout the world became necessary.

He stressed that the significant need to achieve the two sided concept (quality and linking labor market needs with university graduates in the term of specialty and number) emphasizing the necessity of creating true effective partnerships between universities and the business sector as well as the development in scientific research at universities, driving innovation and invention and launching innovation initiatives for youth in universities with qualifying the graduates in full to deal with the knowledge economy and use information technology and communication techniques.

Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh called for a  change at the universities to become centers of strategic and economic studies capable of achieving a crucial leap in development and "we must, at the Arab universities, realize that the future is for digital education and the knowledge revolution is coming through universities and it must initiate the establishment of digital education programs parallel with the traditional educational programs."

Dr. Abu- Ghazaleh presented his vision of the challenges facing the educational system in the Republic of Egypt in light of the interventions achieved by the social and economic environment; however, he complemented the new Minister of Higher Education HE Mr. Ahmed Abdul Khaliq for having the vision and ability to draw the necessary policies.

Also, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh clarified that accepting millions of students in universities each year cannot happen except in light of shifting to distant digital learning parallel to the traditional education with requesting universities to establish knowledge centers throughout the Republic such as the center to be established under the cooperation agreement with the Armed Forces Information Systems Institute.

Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh announced that the best security treatment is to demolish university fences and cancel the word university premises following the world’s most recognized universities considering that universities are educational centers and not religious places to have premises and considering that in the knowledge era there is no need for yards because the information technique devices are the alternative. He added, it is better to consider the premises a part of the public street subject to the responsibility of the State instead of the university security.

Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh whom also chairs a group of educational and knowledge institutions in the world warned that the education system in Egypt shall face significant burdens during the next decade and a half with the increase in the number of university graduates which may reach to two million additional students annually which requires creating solutions through wide innovations with rapid shifting to distant learning through knowledge techniques.