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In September 1994, Vice President Gore and Egyptian President Mubarak launched the U.S.-Egypt Partnership for Economic Growth and Development, also known as the Gore–Mubarak Partnership. Operating through a high level public and private sector dialogue, the Partnership promotes policies leading to expanded economic growth and job creation in Egypt and to mutually beneficial economic and commercial ties between the two countries. Several Committees and Subcommittees were charged with pursuing the Partnership’s goals. The mandate of Subcommittee IV is to take the lead in improving education policies and practices in ways that further private sector growth.

SUBCOMMITTEE IV AND EDUCATION
Recognizing that an educated workforce must form the basis of Egypt’s development strategy for the next century, the Gore–Mubarak Partnership established Subcommittee IV (SCIV) to develop and test strategies, systems and structures that will enable Egypt to flourish in the highly competitive, market-driven, information-based, global economy of the future.

The SCIV work program, implemented by its Secretariat in Cairo and Washington, D.C., is pursuing the following objectives: read more..