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It is a constant and unified study program adopted by the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology at the Ministry of Higher Education, applied in Egyptian universities away from the normal school day for children aged nine to fifteen, with the aim of developing children’s abilities, perceptions and ideas, creating a spirit of creativity and innovation and urging them to understand, making dialogue and discussion, not the conservation and indoctrination, through training them on all laboratory, training and skill activities in the faculties of different universities, hoping for their superiority and ingenuity in aspects that are consistent with their capabilities and available capabilities, while making sure that they live with the university atmosphere, which leads to the development of the spirit of loyalty and belonging to their Egyptian society.
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.
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.
Vision:
Today’s children are tomorrow’s tools for building modern Egypt and boosting the Egyptian community.
Mission:
Children’s University’s mission is to prepare Egyptian children for the future as change agents capable of facing different challenges and shaping the world through their developing creativity and innovative ability.
Children’s University main goal is to build the minds of Egyptian Children through enhancing their interest in science with a special focus on the importance of scientific research and the development of science skills.
Children’s University is meant:
• To prepare children for future challenges
• To nourish children’s life-long passion for learning
• To enhance children’s self-esteem and confidence
• To help children identify, focus on and achieve their future goals.
• To provide a creative, innovative and out of the box educational environment
• To ensure that every child, irrespective of his social background, have access to high-quality learning activities. • To support STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and maths) based education in Egypt.
• To strengthen the bond between the children and their neighborhood Universities.
• To raise awareness of the benefits and opportunities that higher education can bring, especially for students representing the less fortunate sections of the society.
• To encourage University Professors to voluntary participation in community serving activities.
• To raise aspirations of parents especially those of children from less socioeconomic sections.
• To promote and develop teaching skills and information delivery methods among school teachers.
Organizational structure
The documents necessary for admission to Children’s University:
1- Mechanized birth certificate of the child (original).
2- 4 recent photos of the child
3- A copy of the guardian’s ID card
4- Child data form (from the university).
5- Guardian acknowledgment.
Terms & Conditions:
- Registration is available for the age from 9 to 15 years, provided that the child is not less than 9 years old and not more than 15 years old at the time of registration, which is scheduled for March of each year to coincide with the Egyptian Science Month.
- Registration is electronic only and there is no way to register the child except through the website only.
- The electronic system allows the registration of the child only once, and this will be done by verifying the national number of each child.
- Children are the responsibility of their parents and guardians to and from the study site at the university, and the academy and the university are not responsible for children before they receive them on the school day or after the school day ends and parents receive them.
- Study dates are announced according to the temporary conditions available to the university. In the event that any child fails to attend, this forfeits his right to grant him a child’s university certificate, and his guardian has no right to demand the completion of the program or transfer to another university.
- Children’s University program is unified in all universities, with a rate of more than 85%, so students apply to register at the university according to their residential square, as there is no difference in the basic curriculum between universities.
- No student has the right to request transfer to and from another university, whatever the circumstances.
Children's University Activities