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Pathways to Higher Education (PHE/EG) is a soft-skills oriented training program funded by Ford Foundation in fourteen different countries across the globe, and implemented in Egypt by Cairo University represented by CAPSCU in three phases over a period of ten years, starting 2002 through 2012. The main objectives of PHE/EG is to enhance the skills of socially disadvantaged (underprivileged) groups among the university students and graduates, focusing on students and graduates of humanities and social sciences specializations preserving gender equal opportunity, with a primary view to improving their chances of access to postgraduate studies, enhancing their prospects to benefit from any scholarships programs, and/or maximizing their potential for acquiring better employment opportunities. These developmental issues are in-line with the overall objectives and reform strategy of the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) that is being implemented in phases by the Projects Management Unit (PMU/MOHE). To achieve an effective outreach, CAPSCU established partnerships with counterpart stakeholders concerned with skills-oriented human resources capacity building. One of the partners is the Social Fund for Development (SFD)] a government funding mechanism that provides support for graduates to start their own businesses. In addition, the main beneficiaries are the ten Egyptian public universities participating in Phase-I & Phase-II of the PHE/EG project, namely Cairo, (Ain-Shams ), (Assiut ), (Helwan ), Minia, (South Valley ), (Fayoum ), (Beni-Suef ), (Benha ) and (Suhag ), as well as the remaining eight of the existing eighteen public universities that will participate in Phase-III, namely, (Alexandria ), (Mansoura ), (Zagazig ), (Menoufia ), (Tanta ), (Suez Canal ), (Kafr El-Sheikh ), Port Said and Damanhoor. The Management Team of PHE/EG project established a management network infrastructure/mechanism that allows for the concurrent implementation of the PHE/EG training programs in all public universities, biannually during mid-term and summer holidays. This entails having a project coordinator in each university working closely with the PHE/EG management team to cater for all logistical matters for running the training programs , including; interviews of applicants that meet the preliminary online screening criteria, providing them with automated online assessment tests and selecting the successful applicants for the training programs. In addition, project coordinators, being senior faculty members in their respective universities, were able to provide job opportunities to some of the distinguished trainees. == Pathways Partners == *Cairo University *Ain Shams University *Assiut University *University of Helwan *Minia University *University of South Valley *Fayoum University *University of Beni Suef *University of Banha *University of Sohag *Alexandria University *Tanta University *Mansoura University *Zagazig University *Minufiya University *Suez Canal University *Kafr El-Sheikh University *Port Said University *Damanhour University *Aswan University *Azhar University The project coordinators in universities and the govererates *Prof. Magdy Mahmoud Bahgat Otaiba, professor at the Faculty of Engineering and former Vice Dean - Fayoum University *Prof. Ola Ibrahim Hamouda, professor at the Faculty of Science and former Vice Dean - University of Beni Suef *Prof. Azza Mohammed Ahmed Salam professor at the Faculty of Education and former Vice Dean - Minia University *Prof. Osama Sayed Mohamed, assistant professor, Faculty of Engineering - Assiut University *Prof. Ahmed Khatib, director of the Center for Quality Assurance and professor at the Faculty of Science - Sohag University *Prof. Sayed Omar Mohamed Dean of the Faculty of Science, Qena - South Valley University *Prof. Abdullah Ahmad Ibrahim al-Dean of the Faculty of Engineering - University of the South Valley, Aswan Governorate Coordinator *Prof. Abdo Mahdi Mohammed Mahdi and Deputy Dean of Faculty of Agriculture - Benha University *Prof. Amr Soliman Ass. professor of economics and director of the centre of quality assurance, Faculty of commerce & Business Administration - Helwan University The performance of PHE/EG project has been recently assessed during the final stages of the implementation of Phase-II by a professional external evaluator commissioned through the Ford Foundation Headquarters office in New York, over a prolonged period of time following TQM methodology, to ensure that the project has achieved its developmental objectives. The outcome of the assessment was the approval of the Ford Foundation Headquarters to continue funding Phase-III of the project, with Egypt being at the forefront of only four countries, out of the fourteen, selected to continue implementation reaching an aggregate period of ten years, which the longest period of any project funded by the foundation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pathways to Higher Education, Egypt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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