Egyptian students crammed into the Excellent-Oxford Tutoring Centre in a suburb of Cairo for a five-hour private math lesson with tutor Mohammed Galal. The tutoring industry in Egypt has become a big business by filling the void left by public schools, once the bedrock of middle-class advancement. — ©2023 The New York Times Company
ASKED what classes were like in her last year of high school, the fateful period when students across the country cram for Egypt’s life-defining national exams, Nermin Abouzeid looked blank for a second.
“We don’t actually know, because she never went to high school,” explained her mother, Manal Abouzeid, 47.
