The National Reading Programme (NRP) — which is affiliated with the Emirate’s Research Science Institute (RSI) — announced the beginning of the first and second rounds of qualifiers of the 2022 ‘Intellectual Student Competition’ starting from the second week of April for a duration of three weeks.
This comes within the NRP’s message towards encouraging school and Al-Azhar institute students to read in a way that reinforces Egypt’s cultural leadership, complying with the state’s 2030 Vision.
The first round of qualifiers is scheduled to happen across schools and Al-Azhar institutes starting the beginning of the second week of April, while the second round will take place across Al-Azhar and educational directorates in the last week of April. In both rounds, one student from each of the four categories will be nominated for the next round.
The Intellectual Student Competition encompasses four categories. Students between the first to third year in primary schools come in the first category, followed by students between the fourth to sixth year in the second category, then students between the first to third year in preparatory schools in the third category, and finally the fourth category that encompasses high school students.
Moreover, the NRP held four-day training courses for a total of 1,454 referees, Arabic language specialists, and library experts from the Ministry of Education and Al-Azhar nationwide, allowing them to become eligible to further train 36,350 referees with the aim of ensuring fair arbitration among the contestants.
The NRP is a 10-year sustainable competing project that aims to encourage Egyptian kids and youths to embrace critical creative functional reading, enabling them to acquire, apply, and produce new knowledge towards a community that learns, thinks, and innovates.
The NRP is supported by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Higher Education, and Al-Azhar.
