Overview
The University treats access to higher education as a matter of equity, ensuring that financial circumstances do not stand between a capable student and a degree, and carries that commitment beyond its own students into the surrounding communities.
The University pursues this goal across its teaching, its scientific research, its campus operations and its service to the community. The sections below set out how it delivers the goal, the activities held during the year, the research its academics published, and the policies that underpin its commitment.
How the University delivers this goal
- Operates a structured programme of need-based tuition support and scholarships so that admitted students are not forced to withdraw for financial reasons.
- Lowers the day-to-day cost of study for students from low-income families through free shared transport, subsidised meals and on-campus services.
- Offers scholarship routes for students from lower-income countries.
- Through its partnership with the Hayah Foundation for Sustainable Development, supports community members to start financially and socially sustainable businesses, including micro-credit for young people.
- Delivers community training, literacy classes and medical convoys that widen access to basic services.
- Contributes to national poverty-reduction and social-solidarity initiatives.
Activities in 2023/24
- FUE continued its decade-long partnership with the Hayah Foundation for Sustainable Development, whose programmes — micro-credit for young entrepreneurs, adult-literacy classes, and medical and winter convoys — reached low-income communities across Greater Cairo, with University students and staff taking part in the convoys and outreach.
Policies supporting this goal
Back to the 2023/24 report Overall report 2023/24
