Authorities mull reform of outdated open education

By Ashraf Khaled. Egypt’s higher education authorities have said they are studying the development of open education programmes in the nation’s universities after the 25-year-old system drew widespread criticism.
The Supreme Council of Universities, which is in charge of higher education policy, formed a commission of academics to look into problems of open education and ways of upgrading it.
“This committee has compiled a 500-page report about the problems of this type of education and how the system has deviated from its course,” council head Ashraf Hatem said recently. Read more...