Egypt Education Ministry signs agreement with Microsoft to create digital educational environment

Jan 1, 2021

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Egypt’s Ministry of Education announces it has signed an agreement with Microsoft Egypt to provide a digital educational environment for students and teachers.

This is part of its efforts to ensure the safety of all educational system members. Whilst ensuring learning continues across the country as the world grapples with the coronavirus crisis.

Twenty million students and one million teachers are set to benefit from the unified platform.

The partnership will see the activation of an E-service for the entire Ministry of Education and Technical Education. It will also equip educators and students with solutions such as Microsoft Office 365.

Microsoft will implement the digital educational environment through its local partners Cairo Codes and BlueCloud.

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