International Day of Education
International Day of Education
The celebration of 2022 comes under the theme “Changing course, transforming education”, as it is a human right, good, public benefit and responsibility that must be promoted in order to build a more sustainable, inclusive, equitable, participatory, democratic, development and peaceful future.
Coinciding with the World Education Day, Egypt demonstrated its efforts to improve the educational process, throughout a statement issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Education, in which it stated the most prominent efforts towards the development of education. It included producing 224 electronic educational software for technical education and making them available on the Ministry’s E-learning platform, in addition to providing a huge amount of educational materials for students of all educational levels in cooperation with the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, as well as producing about 62 short cartoon films, guiding graphic films for curricula, and producing 116 software Interactive electronic education for the primary stage. It included also about 19 educational songs and about 153 video graphic films for technical education curricula enriching the Ministry of Education channel on YouTube with a total of 2056 video films, serving as a library of educational, dialogue and enrichment films.
The United Nations General Assembly decided to declare January 24 as International Day of Education, to celebrate the role played by education in achieving peace, and to raise awareness of how to guide digital transformation, support teachers and preserve the planet, and unleash the potential of every person so that they can contribute to achieving our collective well-being and preserving on our common home.
According to United Nations statistics, there are still about 258 million children and youth who are not enrolled in school; there are 617 million children and adolescents who cannot read, write and do basic arithmetic, and the number of out-of-school children and refugees is about four million. Hence, their right to education is being violated, so we must make more efforts in order to reduce this gap, and enable them to enjoy their human right to education, to ensure that no one is left behind, in order to achieve a safe, sophisticated and sustainable world.
