Your top education stories of the week

Your top education stories of the week:

• CIRA has resumed construction of its Regent British School in Mansoura after receiving approval from Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly.
• The Higher Education Ministry has trained 15k med students to work as emergency staff at hospitals.
• Students are not likely to return to schools before the end of the current academic year, Education Minister Tarek Shawky said.
• Around 7k schools and educational centers have been forcibly shut downfor violating curfew.
• Higher Education Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar announced the ISESCO’s USD 200k prize for the team of researchers who discover a covid-19 treatment or vaccine.