The Faculty of Arts celebrates handing over certificates for the preparation course for adult education trainers

The Community Service and Environmental Development Sector at the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, celebrated the fact that the team of the Literacy and Adult Education Project in the college had obtained a course to prepare adult education trainers by accrediting the Adult Education Center at Ain Shams University, which is the first center of its kind in Egyptian universities specialized in adult education.

The training course was held under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Mahmoud El-Metini, President of Ain Shams University, supervised by Prof. Dr. Hesham Tamraz, Vice President for Community Service and Environmental Development, Prof. Dr. Mustafa Mortada, Dean of the Faculty and Prof. Dr. Rasha Al-Didi, Vice Dean for Community Service and Environmental Development, who delivered the certificates with the participation of Dr. Islam Al-Saeed, Director of the Adult Education Center at the university, Dr. Muhammad Kasim, director of the Literacy and Adult Education Unit at the college, and a group of faculty members and their assistants.

These efforts come in order to qualify faculty members and their assistants to train faculty students on adult education skills and eradicate their illiteracy within the framework of integrating university students into the literacy and adult education project in cooperation with the General Authority for Adult Education.

It is noteworthy that the Faculty of Arts ranked second for the third time in a row among the faculties of the university after its success in eradicating the illiteracy of more than six thousand illiterates by carrying out several comprehensive development convoys, including literacy and adult education in the neighborhoods adjacent to the university, especially the neighborhoods of Waili and Al-Moski in Cairo within the efforts of the college and the university To address the dangers of illiteracy in the Egyptian society, and in implementation of the state’s plan to achieve sustainable development until 2030, in the inclusion of education for all adults who did not have the opportunity to learn as a result of dropping out of basic education.