An Egyptian math teacher said of the U.S. aid cuts and lack of sustainability plan: “What was lost is expertise, technical support, and the speed of decision-making outside bureaucratic constraints, elements the ministry has not succeeded in fully compensating for.”
Date: 3/26
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Country: Egypt
Topic: Education
Policy Lens: Moral Leadership
Entry Type: Field Observation
Additional Context: This information was collected as part of The Aid Report’s original reporting, “Built with U.S. aid, Egypt’s elite science academies now face collapse.” The feature story examined how a network of Egyptian STEM academies once held up as a model for modern education is unraveling after the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. support, exposing the fragility of reforms built on external expertise.
This quote is attributed to Ahmed Hassan, a mathematics professor who specializes in international math curricula.
Source: Devex