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During the activities of the National Strategy for Higher Education and Scientific Research held yesterday under the auspices of Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, and in the presence of Dr. Ayman Ashour, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, their excellencies ministers, presidents of public, private and national universities, and Mr. Gareth Bayley, British Ambassador to Cairo, Dr. Abdelaziz Konsowa, President of Alexandria University, signed a cooperation agreement between Alexandria University and the British University of East London with the aim of cooperation through a set of double degrees and joint degrees that support Egypt’s vision 2030. These degrees are mainly concerned with industry-related programs and innovation programs that will provide opportunities for students in the labour market, in the fields of health sciences, sports, business administration and entrepreneurship, hospitality and tourism, law and justice. Cooperation will also include joint research projects, joint scientific supervision, exchange of faculty professors between the two universities, receiving visiting professors, exchange of scientific and academic materials, and live broadcasting of classes in related disciplines of common interest, as well as developing short-term language study programmes.
The signing of the agreement was witnessed by a group of leaders of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, representatives of the British Embassy, and representatives of the British Council.
