Today, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi acquired Japanese Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Matsumoto Yohei. The assembly was attended by Minister of Education and Technical Education Mohamed Abdel Latif, Japan’s Ambassador to Egypt Iwai Fumio, Director-General for International Affairs on the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Kitayama Kouji, additionally from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Mr. Kobataki Yasu.
The Spokesman for the Presidency, Ambassador Mohamed El-Shennawy, stated the President welcomed the Japanese minister and requested him to convey his greetings to His Majesty Emperor Naruhito of Japan and to Her Excellency Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.
The President emphasised that Egypt holds in excessive esteem its shut and longstanding cooperation with Japan in numerous fields, significantly training. The President counseled Japan’s vital contribution to the Grand Egyptian Museum undertaking and the success of the Egyptian-Japanese Schools undertaking, noting Egypt’s curiosity in growing the quantity of these colleges in numerous governorates and enhancing the participation and growing the quantity of Japanese principals and consultants managing them.
The Japanese Minister of Education famous this was his first official go to overseas since assuming workplace, which displays Japan’s keenness to reinforce cooperation with Egypt within the area of training. He emphasised that the Egyptian-Japanese Schools undertaking represents a profitable mannequin of developmental cooperation and the assist Japan gives to its companions in Africa and the Middle East. The Japanese minister additionally supplied his congratulations on the election of Dr. Khaled El-Enany as Director-General of UNESCO, noting that Japan seemed ahead to additional strengthening cooperation and coordination with UNESCO and Dr. El-Enany.
The assembly addressed prospects for growing academic relations between the 2 international locations, together with cooperation in growing Egyptian curricula, introducing software program research for about 750,000 college students in response to the Japanese curriculum, in addition to cooperation in technical training and coaching Egyptian academics to show the Japanese language and curriculum, and supporting training and rehabilitation packages for folks with particular wants. Both sides additionally mentioned means to broaden the Japanese colleges in Egypt to function a mannequin that could possibly be replicated in Africa and the Arab area.
The President expressed his appreciation to Japan for its cooperation with Egypt in all fields, particularly training, and seemed ahead to doubling the focused quantity of Japanese colleges in Egypt within the subsequent 5 years, in addition to to extend the quantity of Japanese consultants managing these colleges. The President burdened the significance of benefiting from the distinguished Japanese expertise in self-discipline and academic imaginative and prescient, and working to accentuate pupil trade packages between the 2 international locations.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Presidency of the Arab Republic of Egypt.