Licensing Private Schools between a Complex Legal Framework and Procedural Constraints

05-11-2015
Author(s): Dr. Fatma Salah, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Cairo University; and Partnerat Ibrashy and Dermarkar Law Firm
Publication Number: ECES-WP182-E

Introduction

Education is the key to development of societies and the driver of its progress. Despite efforts by the state to implement reform-oriented educational policies, and the allocation of substantial resources to spending on education and developing government schools to accommodate the steady increase in classroom density, the government remains unable to provide an acceptable quality of education.