Campus-wide internet systems at Egypt’s former USAID-funded STEM schools have gone offline because they rely on proprietary American hardware and subscriptions that the Ministry of Education can no longer afford to maintain following the aid cuts.
Date: 3/26
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Country: Egypt
Topic: Education
Policy Lens: Economic & Trade Interests
Entry Type: Operational Impact
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.
Source: Devex