Egypt’s universities must stop offering education without charge to improve the quality of education

Egypt’s public universities need to start charging tuition fees; private universities should subsidize state system: Egypt’s higher education system needs to be overhauled to provide better-quality education that caters to the needs of the country’s job market, Hatem Abdelmoneim Ahmed writes for Ahram Gate. For that to happen, public universities must be allowed to trim enrolment figures and start charging tuition. What’s more, Ahmed argues, a portion of the tuition fees collected by private universities should be tithed and directed toward financing public education. He also urges the government to meet the constitutionally-mandated minimum spending requirement on education in the state budget.