EGX-listed education outfit CIRA has received presidential approval to begin offering seventeen majors at its flagship Badr University in Assiut. The degrees include veterinary medicine, physical therapy, nursing, biotechnology, law, linguistics, political science, business and economics, and AI and data management, the company said in a press release (pdf). CIRA will prioritize launching medical faculties, which will be among the four to six it will launch by the spring semester of the 2021-2022 academic year.

Belcash, BUE to provide new education finance product: Beltone Consumer Finance (Belcash) and the British University in Egypt (BUE) signed a partnership agreement to provide tuition fee loans to the parents of BUE students, according to a BUE pressrelease (pdf). The lender will cover partial and full loans over six to 12 monthly installments.

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