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Ministries of Public Works, Justice, Agriculture and Finance have sent students to
Europe for specialised training to meet the needs of their services and to provide
that as far as possible technical posts may be filled by Egyptians rather than
Europeans. There are at present nineteen Public Works engineers in England
specialising in various branches of engineering; eleven students of the Ministry of
Justice are following a course of law (five in England and six in France), six students
of the Ministry of Agriculture are specialising in England, and three students of
the Ministry of Finance are working for a Degree in Economics in England. In
addition the Ministry of Agriculture maintains three students in America for
Special courses. The King is also maintaining in England at his own expense two
students to be trained for teaching posts in the"Royal Wakfs Schools. The “ Fahmia
Educational Mission,” endowed from a Wakf established by Ali Bey Fahmi, has
also sent two students to England for post-graduate study.
402. By the end of the year arrangements had been made for the appointment of
a Sub-Director of the Egyptian Educational Office in England, with a special know
ledge of engineering, in order to facilitate the placing of the engineers sent to
England by the Ministry of Public Works with suitable firms, and in general to
maintain more effective control over their studies. It is anticipated that the number
of these students will be largely increased in 1922.
403. The number of Egyptian students in Europe at the end of 1921, as com
pared with 1920, was as follows :—
United
Kingdom.
Prance
Switzerland.
Belgium.
Italy.
Germany.
Total.
1920—
Government students ..
66
1
67
Private students—
Supervised
236
196
31
2
126
591
Unsupervised
39
24
11
74
Total ..
341
221
42
2
126
732
1921-
Government students ..
89
6
1
96
Private students—
Supervised
229
248
44
95
617
Unsupervised
37
38
11
1
87
Total
355
292
55
2
95
1
800
The number of Egyptian private students in Germany and Austria is not given
as it is impossible to form a reliable estimate. The greater increase of private
students in France as compared with England is due to the fact that admission to
the universities was more easily obtained in the former country, the number of
vacancies at the universities and medical schools in England allotted to foreign
students since the war having been greatly restricted owing to the crowded state of
these institutions.
68. Royal Library.
404. The contents of the Royal Library have been increased during the year
from 94,000 to 100,850 volumes, 5,207 volumes having been added to the Oriental
section and 1,643 to the European. These additions include benefactions in the
shape of the private libraries of the late Said Ahmed-el-Husseini Bev, Dr. Mohammed
Elwi Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and Ali Rida Bey, which have been presented to the library. They also
include twelve photographed MSS., ten from the Bibliotheque nationale of Paris and
two from the British Museum, obtained by the director during his visit to Europe in
1920. The use made of the library by the public continues to extend, the number of
books lent for reading in the library having risen from 34,385 to '35,188, and the
number borrowed for home reading from 11,510 to 12,283, while the number of
visits paid to the reading rooms increased to 35,986 in 1921, as compared with
32,076 in 1920 and 18,089 in 1919. The Royal press has been transferred from the
Government press to the library, and has begun the task of printing an abridged
Arabic catalogue of the library up to date. In accordance with the proposals made
by his Excellency Gaafar Wali Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , arrangements are being made to value the