The crisis of the "tabloid" .. Sisi remains silent and demands accountability of the Minister of Education

Karim Adel - Cairo

The crisis of the failure of the electronic test using the Tablet PC for the first grade students in Egypt itself was imposed on a meeting held by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat and Prime Minister Mustapha Medbouli amid parliamentary demands to hold Education Minister Tariq Shawki accountable.

The meeting followed student protests over the past two days in protest against the failure of the system of electronic exams, before the Ministry of Education decided to postpone the exams yesterday only "because of high temperatures," while some said that it was because of student demonstrations.

On the first day of the exams last Sunday, students on board to take their exams, a first-time course in the history of Egyptian government education, were unable to access the system and take the Arabic language exam.

Military responsibility
The Minister of Education has confirmed - in remarks made last month - that the armament of the Egyptian army is the one that chose the tablets for the first grade secondary, and that was contracted with Samsung to provide the best prices.

The Egyptian president did not comment on the crisis yet, but the Minister of Communications and Information Technology at the meeting yesterday intensified the work on the plan to switch to the digital government, to provide the latest services to citizens in a simple and easy manner and provide various services electronically.

The Spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic, Ambassador Bassam Radi, said that the meeting dealt with the follow-up of the executive position of the national projects related to the ICT sector, including the Artificial Intelligence Strategy.

The Minister of Communications and Information Technology presented the operational position of a number of projects already under way, which included the preparation of the artificial intelligence strategy, the project of establishing Knowledge City in the new administrative capital and the efforts of the government for digital transformation.

In a related context, the Egyptian Interior Ministry denied that members of the Ministry of the Interior in civilian clothes arrested students in the secondary school stage, while demonstrating in front of the Ministry of Education.

The state-owned Akhbar al-Youm portal quoted a security source as saying that the pictures belong to people who are not affiliated with the Ministry of Interior. The date of the photographs is dated to 2015 and published in a number of accounts with the same date.

There were many pictures and video clips of the demonstrations of students and students in the first grade secondary in Egypt, some of them transferred media close to the Authority to reject the failure of the system of electronic examinations, but the Ministry of Interior did not comment on them.

Accounting of the Minister
For his part, demanded a member of the House of Representatives of the Conservative Party Mustafa Kamaluddin Hussein, accounting for the Egyptian Minister of Education on the waste of public money on the backdrop of the "crisis of the table."

He added in a press statement that he submitted more than four requests to brief the parliament, the latest was on the system of tablets, noting that "the students have become mice test the minister," as he put it.

He explained that this crisis is part of the failure of the minister in the educational system, because he intensified his efforts on the technological education system only and neglected the rest of the system, from the infrastructure of schools and the development of curricula and attention to teachers in terms of training, social and material.