Today, the Adult Education Authority in Cairo held illiteracy exams for 88 workers at Ain Shams University from the Faculties of Girls, Specific Education, Science, Dentistry, Medicine, Agriculture, and from the departments of university dormitories, the printing press, and gardens, as the first output of the project “A Decent Life without Illiteracy,” which It is supported by the education sector and students from the workers of the companies cooperating with Ain Shams University and some workers who have not been erased from illiteracy at a previous stage, and in the presence of 102 student teachers from the Faculties of Girls, Arts, and Specific Education.
This is under the auspices of Prof. Mahmoud El-Meteini, President of Ain Shams University, Prof. Abdel-Fattah Saoud, Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, with academic coordination, Dr. Islam Al-Saeed, Director of the Center for Adult Education and Administrative Coordination, Mr. Ibrahim Saeed Hamza, Director General of the Office of the Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, Mr. Muhammad Abu Al-Azm, Secretary of the Office of the Vice President for Education and Student Affairs.
Prof. Abdel-Fattah Saoud, Vice President for Education and Student Affairs, said that it is a decent life project without illiteracy that achieves personal and subjective benefits for the learner, such as: enhancing his self-confidence, and allowing the learner to participate with his surroundings and society in an effective way, in addition to the presence of social and economic benefits, which benefit the learners to increase their income, also, developing awareness, activating the values of loyalty and belonging, consolidating the concept of citizenship, the values of tolerance, rejecting violence and terrorism, accepting difference, enabling them to continue education in the following stages, and then preventing them from reverting to illiteracy again, and consolidating the concept of lifelong learning.
It is worth noting that exams will continue on Sunday and Tuesday to include a larger number of students.