The brand new campus might be situated at Ain Shams College (ASU) in Cairo, providing accredited undergraduate and postgraduate levels from the College of Exeter.
“The institution of a Russell Group department campus in Egypt – an unprecedented first for Africa – is a groundbreaking achievement that symbolises the boundless potential of collaboration in greater schooling,” mentioned Egypt’s minister of upper schooling and scientific analysis, Mohamed Ayman Ashour.
“This partnership is greater than an educational milestone; it’s a daring dedication to tackling world challenges via analysis innovation and making ready future generations for achievement in an more and more interconnected world,” he mentioned.
The 2 establishments may also launch twin diploma choices and interdisciplinary programs to organize college students for trade employment, alongside collaborative analysis initiatives and college and pupil alternate applications.
ASU, which presently has seven campus throughout Egypt’s capital and town of Shubra El Kheima, is dwelling to just about 160,000 college students, together with 12,000 worldwide college students. It’s one in every of Egypt’s high public universities, ranked 592 in QS’s World College Rankings 2025.
Vice chancellor of the College of Exeter, Lisa Roberts, welcomed the initiative as a approach of accelerating accessibility of upper schooling and of “tackling the world’s most urgent challenges”.
“The College of Exeter’s status for cutting-edge analysis in fields like local weather change and translational medication completely aligns with the forward-thinking aspirations of Ain Shams College and Egypt’s strategic imaginative and prescient for greater schooling,” added Ayman Ashour.
The settlement was formally established by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) at a ceremony at ASU on January 19, 2025, and guarantees to construct cross-cultural understanding and belief between the 2 international locations.
This partnership is greater than an educational milestone; it’s a daring dedication to tackling world challenges via analysis innovation
Mohamed Ayman Ashour, Egypt’s Ministry of Training
Pioneered by the British Council’s Greater Training TNE program, the initiative has been praised by officers from each international locations for enhancing Egypt’s internationalisation and strengthening ties between the UK and Egypt.
The “new and thrilling” settlement will “improve entry to UK schooling for a lot of younger Egyptians, creating new pathways for his or her skilled future”, defined British ambassador to Egypt, Gareth Bayley, sharing his “delight” within the cooperation.
A British Council report in 2023 recognized Egypt’s giant youth inhabitants and increasing greater schooling system as a constructive atmosphere for UK TNE, below the academic reforms pushed by Egypt’s present president Abdel Fattah El Sisi.
The partnership is a milestone in Egypt’s Imaginative and prescient 2030 technique for schooling, encouraging establishments to use for worldwide accreditation, increasing scholarships to advance scientific analysis abroad and revising college rules to facilitate school mobility.
