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!

Alumni Awards Finalists 2018

Professor. Hesham M. Sallam

Professor, Global Health and Human Ecology

Hesham is Egypt’s first professor of vertebrate paleontology, holding positions at AUC and Mansoura University. He earned his Ph.D from Oxford in 2010 and founded the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Centre,the Middle East’s top research hub. Winner of the British Council’s Study UK Alumni Science & Sustainability Award (2021-2022), his research is published in leading journals. Hesham is dedicated to training paleontologists, raising awareness, and preserving Egypt’s fossil heritage.

Sarah Saad

Culture and Creativity Award, University of Kent

Sarah is a professional multimedia consultant, journalist, filmmaker, and content creator. She is a multimedia consultant for BBC Arabic’s BBC Xtra. Director and producer of shows for different channels and content creator for creative and entertainment online shows. Sarah’s, knowledge, powerful storytelling skills, and expertise changed the quality of the content produced in different news  while addressing critical issues and representing underrepresented groups in the pan-Arab media.

Sounds Right

An interactive pronunciation chart to help you learn the sounds of English quickly and easily. It also features audio playback for phonemes and sample words using the sounds.

Download for: iOS (iPad only)

Together for Interrelated Family

This initiative aims to help families in informal areas solve their own problems by raising family awareness and education, and showing how to accommodate other cultures, Together for Interrelated Family works closely with all family members, either through bilateral meetings or open sessions at mosques, churches and youth centres.

2014 - Ahmed Badr

Ahmed was born in 1994 in Cairo. He graduated 1st in his class from the Modern Education British School. Currently, Ahmed is studying at Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, and he is in the top 30 successful students in the class. Ahmed is a member of the Ain Shams Student Scientific Society, he plays basketball for the Heliopolis U20 team, and he also has a spot on the sports committee in the Faculty of Medicine.

Ayat Al Taweel

The head of Academic Management and a CELTA tutor at the British Council in Egypt. She has more than 20 years of experience in teaching and teacher training in different contexts across MENA. Throughout her career, she has been delivering teacher training sessions face2face and online in local and international conferences and events and moderating a range of ELT courses for different teacher associations. 

Einstein’s Planet

Initiative supporting children with learning difficulties through three stages. First diagnosing children with learning difficulties and setting up  an intervention plan with professional input. Secondly, raising parents’ awareness on how to deal with their children with learning difficulties. Finally, capacity building workshops for volunteers on how to deal with and assist children with learning difficulties. Assessment and intervention services are paid services.

 

Fatima Rafea and Dana Al Shaikh - Bahrain

In this video, Fatima and Dana share their stories focusing on quality education – as one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations – and what impact the shift to remote learning had in over 200 public schools in Bahrain.

Fatima takes us through some of her ways to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education for all; she takes us through the workshops she organised: workshops on learning technology and Google Earth, as well as a Microsoft white board workshop.
Dana, on the other hand, highlights the key factors teachers need to focus on: students’ motivation and interaction and how she developed workshops to use Mentimeter for interactive lessons, class dojo for motivation and MS Teams for live lessons.

Click to watch Fatima's and Dana's testimonials

Have goodness for breakfast

The initiative aims at promoting local development among people and increasing awareness of efforts in vulnerable heritage areas in Fayoum governorate.  This was done by organising visits and trips to these villages, through which young people could interact more closely with the local community.