Revamped Education System Needed to Fight Growing Unemployment in Egypt

(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - As the resources for fighting unemployment are spread thin over all the collapsing Egyptian industries, jobs are becoming even more scarce. A World Bank report earlier this month concluded that a key obstacle to job growth is the gap between market demands and the training young people receive in Arab schools. But will a theocratic Egyptian government agree to drop several hours of Koran classes from the schedule and replace them with time in the lab?


2012-10-29 00:00:00

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