Overcrowded classrooms hinder educational reform

Egypt’s educational reforms will never be completely effective if classrooms continue to be overcrowded, Abbas El Tarabily writes for Al Masry Al Youm. El Tarabily argues that Egypt needs to ramp up its construction of schools to accommodate the number of school-age children, while simultaneously conceding that this project would represent a huge financial burden on the state. He settles his cognitive dissonance by suggesting that Egypt rely on using precast construction technology, which would allow the construction of numerous classrooms in a short time.