The British Council is pleased to announce the finalists for a prestigious award celebrating the outstanding achievements of the UK’s international alumni. They are selected by our panel of judges as best representatives for the impact of UK higher education in their chosen career path and the impact they have made for the development of Egypt.
We are proud of them!
University of Sussex
Social Impact Award
Dr Ayman is an expert on population and migration studies. He is the founding President of the Egyptian Society for Migration Studies, he is also an Adjunct Professor in the American University in Cairo and a Senior Lecturer at Cairo demographic Center. Dr. Ayman research work and advocacy on issues related to irregular migration of the Egyptian youth constitute a revival of migration studies in Egypt.
Doctor Ahmed is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, working with various engineering and manufacturing key stakeholders, industry partners and manufacturing networks
Dr. Karim is a head doctor (Oberarzt) at Clinic for Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany. He is a lecturer at the Oral Medicine and Periodontology Department- Cairo University. Dr Karim obtained BDS degree in dentistry in 2002, and in 2006 the Diploma for the Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgeons, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 2008 he received the MSc degree in Oral Medicine and Periodontology from Cairo University.
The pandemic has had a colossal impact on the learning experience worldwide. In this conference, we hear teachers and CoP leaders from Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, Oman. Tunisia, Egypt and Iraq shed light on the constraints and the opportunities of remote teaching; the skills required to be an effective teacher in the virtual environment; the biggest challenges faced by learners in engaging successfully with the virtual environment.
We look at Ideas for online tools; e-learning during lockdown; social media for professional learning.
We discuss why communities of practice are important for teachers and what makes a successful community of practice.
And we take a look at future perspectives by examining what we have learnt during the pandemic and how can we help learners make up for lost time; by discussing the key considerations in blending F2F learning with online learning successfully; and by asking what the future holds for learning English at school.
University of Birmingham
Social Impact Award
Heba's work had a ground breaking effect on the children, their families, and people with visual impairments. Her studies in the UK provided her with qualities and skills vital to confronting educational and social barriers surrounding persons with disabilities. She is now helping many associations for the blind in Egypt trying to promote the idea of establishing several early intervention units for children with multiple disabilities.
Karim Elshenawy is an award-winning Egyptian director. Over the past few years, Karim has received a number of prestigious awards as best director and best TV series for “Take Care of Zizi”, “Qabeel” and “The Seventh Year’s Itch”. His TV series “Take Care of Zizi” was pivotal in raising awareness of ADHD in Egypt and the Middle East. Karim believes that his study at the University of London helped him approach filmmaking as a very collaborative process where the role of the director is to empower every cast and crew member and give them ownership of the project. Karim’s work has been critically acclaimed nationally and regionally by audiences and critics.
In this first video, teachers from different organisations around MENA started their journey with learning how CoPs work and how they can benefit from them. They listened to and interacted with their peers, engaged in open discussions and identified many communications platform that will be helpful for their CoPs.
Peer-to-peer collaboration is an effective way for teachers to learn professionally. During this interactive forum we hear from a range of countries from across the region about how teachers are coming together to develop professionally, through the Teacher Networking Initiative:
We also hear an interview with Simon Borg to gather perspectives on CoPs from beyond the region, collated from his recent global research report: Professional development through Teacher Activity Groups
Marwa is the principal investigator and the executive manager of the Cancer Genetics Unit, the first unit at Alexandria University dealing with high throughput genomic investigations using next-generation sequencing (NGS). Marwa’s work in performing different panels of hotspot/driver genes in cancer assists in determining the suitable drug treatment for each cancer patient.
Marwa is establishing this new technique in her homeland through the Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, and is also assisting other universities in Egypt in establishing their genomic excellence centres.
