There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in
In Egypt, the science curricula limit the science education to acquiring a group of facts and ideas, without giving the students the chance to develop essential and required experimenting, researching and communication skills in science. In the current era, Egypt is in desperate need to enhance the science education programs and to improve the quality of school students which represent the future researchers and scientists of Egypt.
Children’s University is an educational project which is increasingly wide spreading all over the world. Children’s University introduces school children to scientific and critical thinking, creativity, questioning, and problem-solving. Children’s Universities have been developed to engage with children in the context of higher education in order to enable such children to meet professors and scientists as role models and to share their everyday curiosity with professional scientists and researchers.
Children’s University National program is expected to start operating through more than 27 Governmental and Private Egyptian Universities. It’s a program which introduces students from the ages of 9 years to 15 years to exciting learning activities. Activities start outside the normal school day within neighborhood university premises, then extends under the same umbrella in schools; before school, during lunchtime, after school, during weekends or holidays, etc.
All activities are validated/checked by local Children’s University professors and scientists to ensure the quality of learning provided and by curricula expert designers to ensure its alignment with the school curricula. Although open to all, the Children’s University aims particularly to reach less fortunate children facing educational and socioeconomic difficulty especially children of upper Egypt and rural areas.
