Egypt: Declining Funding Undermines Education

Beirut — Adequate Budgets Needed to Tackle Inadequate School Infrastructure, Teacher Shortages

Egyptian authorities have severely undermined the right to education in recent years by failing to allocate sufficient budgetary resources, Human Rights Watch said today.

The government has reduced the national budget for education in real terms and as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and expenditure, further exacerbating a crisis of poor-quality education, a shortage of adequately trained…