China’s Foxconn Group met with executives from the Arab Organization for Industry (AOI) yesterday to discuss a potential collaboration to locally manufacture tablet devices for the Education Ministry ahead of the 2018-19 academic year, Al Shorouk reports. Education Minister Tarek Shawky had unveiled a plan last month to overhaul Egypt’s K-12 education system, that would, among other things, introduce electronic exams that students would take via tablets provided to them by the state. The minister had said the first batch of tablets, which would be produced locally by the ICT and military production ministries, is expected to cost around EGP 2.5-3 bn.

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