Education: Overcrowding characterizes the School Entry 2013-2014

Over Eight million pupils will join schools on Sunday amid “exceptional” circumstances, as the Managers of Educational Institutions will face the problem of overcrowding due to the high proportion of repeaters, as they will be obliged to put 50 pupils, at least, in every classroom, although the figures of the Ministry of National Education shows the opposite and talked about the opening of 462 new Educational Institutions.

In terms of numbers, the educational institutions are expected to receive 8 million and 470 thousand students, up with an estimated number of 321,978 pupils, compared to the previous year, which is the equivalent to 3.95%, including 170.758 pupils in the primary stage, with an increase of 4.76%, and more than 41 thousand pupils in the middle stage with an increase of 41.754 pupils, and more than 106,000 pupils in the secondary stage with increase of 7.14%. Conversely, more than 424.000 pupils will join the preparatory education across various public institutions.

Concerning the 462 new institutions, including 254 primary schools, bringing the number to 18344 schools, including 99 middle schools which will reach 5210 middle schools, compared to 109 new secondary schools, which will bring the number to 2,092 secondary schools, across the country. Bringing the total number of Educational Institutions to 25,640.

In this context, the data obtained from the field show that the problem of overcrowding will be put firmly in the three educational stages, on the grounds that the problem is not a new phenomenon but it was settled last year definitively, and therefore the managers of educational institutions will resort to intensifying the number of pupils in every classroom through putting between 45 and 50 pupils each.