UA-R-GC-1914-01-01-1990-05_Page-033

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of Public Service facilities of CACE, in JUly. While teacher quality is best in the Cairo it is weaker in some of the Outreach Programs outside Cairo, particularly in the smaller, more remote regional centers because few good teachers are available in these areas and many teachers who live in Cairo cannot commute to the Outreach locations. Quality also varies according to the subjects being taught: there are Egyptian computer science professors at the public universities who can teach part-time in our programs, but locally­based English teachers are often not well qualified, and no locally-based teachers in Business Studies can be found. At the present the goal of quality control in the Egyptian regional programs is being addressed through teachers' workshops and supervision of examinations in the regional centers by Cairo­based teachers. In the handful of Outreach programs in Saudi Arabia, and in those getting started in the Gulf states, teacher quality is and will be better because financial support for teacher recruitment and training is included in our agreements with our partners there. Also the Programs are located in cities where there are enough good teachers willing to work part-time, and AUC Outreach supervisors visit the programs every two months to monitor teaching standards. DPS is introducing a full-time, one-year Teacher Education Program (TEP) in Fall 1990 to train university graduates who will teach in the Gulf. The TEP has already conducted summer teacher training workshops and operates an in service program for current teachers. All DPS part-time teachers undergo a week-long training program and conduct a sample class in order to qualify to teach DPS classes. Each DPS teacher is subject to annual evaluations by supervisor and students, and only those rated highest are re-hired. A computer-scored evaluation tool has been developed to facilitate the process of evaluating some 300 teachers each year. Dr!. EI-Amir's Quality Control Unit will monitor quality control and will coordinate teacher training and evaluation in all CACE departments. 5. Adult Education Conferences Dean Brown reported that President Mubarak' s decree designating the 1990's the decade of adult education has opened the way for AUC to introduce the concepts of adult education to a wide spectrum of Egyptian and regional educators, decision-makers, employers, national syndicates and others who have the power to incorporate the concept of lifelong learning into their operations. Whatever can be achieved toward this end in Egypt will be a major step forward, because the prevailing attitude in Egypt is that once one obtains one's diploma, one's need to learn is at an end. For this purpose, CACE is planning two conferences, one in Spring 1991 with the practical end of introducing continuing education to the Egyptian market, and the second an international conference on continuing education in Fall 1991 which will have a more theoretical approach and will include participation by the few other universities in the Arab world that have adult and continuing education programs. The Egyptian conference has been planned and final arrangements will get underway soon. Funding for it is being sought in order to cover the costs and help reduce conference fees so that the widest possible participation by