British universities will soon be able to extend their facilities and set up branches of their campuses Egypt, after the UK agreed with Egypt’s higher education ministry, earlier this week, to facilitate procedures for British institutions to be established in the country. The British Universities Minister Sam Gyimah and Egypt’s Minister of Higher Education Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar met on Tuesday to sign the agreement, during the annual Education World Forum, in Lancaster House, London. The memorandum aims to remove barriers for UK universities to set up branch campuses in Egypt. “The opportunity for UK universities to establish international branch campuses in Egypt will support Egypt’s internationalisation ambitions and labour market demands,” he said. Egypt currently only has one British University, the British University in Egypt, which was founded in 2005 through an intergovernmental agreement.

Source: Egypt Independent January 25, 2018 12:33 UTC