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Egyptian youth throng Edu-Canada tour
150,000 international students choose Canadian schools for their higher education each year. Canadian educational institutions visit Egypt on a Middle Eastern tour.
Ambassador Ferry de Kerckhove inaugurates the Canada Pavilion at Academia Egypt
Canadian educational institutions stopped in Egypt this winter while touring the Middle East. Their visits to Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Gulf region and Amman aim to increase Canada's catchment of international students from that region. Over 150,000 international students choose Canadian schools for their higher education each year. While Canada's high quality of life and openness to other cultures have their lasting appeal, so do the scholarships and exchanges for students, and Canadian studies courses for visiting academics and professionals.
Egypt is a regional hub for Canadian education. Currently, 1,000 Egyptian students study in Canada and approximately 3,500 Egyptian students do their undergraduate studies in Canadian programs in Egypt. From kindergarten to Grade 12, more than 500 Egyptian students study Canadian curricula at International schools in Egypt.
Edu-Canada Egypt
High School students at the Embassy booth at the Canada Pavilion
Canada's Ambassador to Egypt, Ferry de Kerckhove, launched the fourth edition of Edu-Canada Egypt. 120 guests, including Egyptian officials and Canadian and Egyptian education experts, met and discussed new links and new opportunities for the two countries to embark on education projects together.
Next, Canada hosted pavilions at Cairo's Academia Egypt fair and a similar event in Alexandria. Over 10,000 young Egyptians visited the pavilions. The presentations of Canadian institutions programs and facilities were so popular that some of the Canadian institutions proceeded with on-the-spot registration to their school. Upon their arrival at the fair, students were greeted by personnel from the Embassy of Canada and were given orientation on education in Canada as well as required procedures for student visa applications. Encouraged by the Egyptian response, most Canadian education institutions expressed a desire to attend the fairs again in winter 2009.
The Embassy of Canada also organized a one-day school visit to follow Alexandria. Visiting Canadian institutions and Embassy officials met with high school counselors and gave presentations to grade 11 and grade 12 students at four international secondary schools. These included one of Egypt's four Canadian international schools that offer Canadian high school diplomas from Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia.
7th graduating class of joint Egypt-Canada BBA
Minister Ahmed Darwish and Ambassador Ferry de Kerckhove hand a diploma to a graduate of a joint Egypt-Canada BBA program
In parallel to the fair, Ambassador de Kerckhove participated in the graduation ceremony of the 7th cohort of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) who completed their BBA degree in Cairo at UNB’s partner campus of Sadat Academy for Management Sciences (SAMS) and at the UNB Frederickton. The majority of the graduates were female. 69 diplomas were handed to students by the Ambassador, the Egyptian Minister of Administrative Development, Ahmed Darwish, the President of Sadat Academy, Ahmed Youssef, and the Dean of Business Administration at UNB, Dan Coleman.
