Cairo University

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Cairo University is an institute of higher education located in Giza, Egypt. The university was founded on December 21 1908, as the result of an effort to establish a national centre for educational thought. Several constituent colleges preceded the establishment of the university, including the College of Engineering in 1816. Cairo University was founded as a European-inspired civil university, in contrast to the religious university of al-Azhar, and became a model for other state universities in the region. It includes a School of Law and a School of Medicine.

The Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS) currently hosts five academic departments: Economics, Political Science, Statistics, Public Management, and Computer Science and its applications in social sciences. The Faculty has created nine research centres and four specialised programmes. The role of these centres and programmes has been to further facilitate communication between the Faculty and other institutions in Egypt, in addition to providing academic consultations to policy makers, civil society institutions, and specialised international organisations.

Programmes

1. Post-Graduate Diploma: Public Policy, Civil Society, and Advocacy for Child Rights - This is a full one-year, two-semester university post-graduate diploma on public policy and child rights beginning in the academic year 2010-2011. It is taught at four universities in two countries with each coordinating content as appropriate for its students. Courses are in the evening so that professionals can attend. The diploma is designed to equip policy makers, service providers, researchers, students, civil servants, journalists, and others working for children with the tools and the arguments to make legislation, policies, budget, and programmes work for children. It is the result of collaboration between a consortium of: two Egyptian universities - Cairo University, Giza, and Assiut University, Asyut, both of Egypt; two Jordanian universities - University of Jordan and Hashemite University, both of Amman, Jordan; and four higher education institutes in Europe - Free University, Berlin, Germany, Bristol University, Bristol, United Kingdom (UK), Institute for Social Studies, Rotterdam, and Maastricht University, Maastricht, both of the Netherlands. Teaching materials are in English and Arabic. Some lectures are in English with simultaneous interpretation provided.
   
   The main aim of the project is to strengthen the capacities of universities and academic networks to be a platform that bridges the gap between academic teaching and research and evidence-based public policy making and rigorous evaluation of development programmes. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is part of the formative consortium organising the diploma. Two summer schools are planned to bring students from all the diploma programmes together to strengthen the possibilities of international collaboration.
   
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