Military Education

According to Law No.46 for 1973, military education is considered to be a basic subject for passing the academic year or for obtaining the graduation certificate.

Military Education System aims at developing the military awareness of the young people so that generations can be brought up in a way that makes them fit for the military service or for any national mission.

 

Military Education Goals:

1- Developing the military awareness of students, which qualifies the youth for performing the military service while enrolling to it and for performing the national duty. In addition, students - during their training period, gradually gain love of discipline and commitment.

2- Preparing the student militarily, morally, nationally and physically so

as to be a militant in the Armed Forces by the end of his academic study.

Student Training Program:

Elementary Education - Military Traditions - Natural Training -Chemical Training -Art of Militancy - Behavioral Values - National Military History of Egypt Military Security - Administrative Affairs - Art of Leadership – Military Administration.

Elements of Military Education:

Students receive training for three weeks (144 hours) on the aforementioned subjects. Besides, they go through scientific, written and oral tests concerning the training subjects at the end of the training period. Moreover, competition is to be held on Elementary Education and Military Education. Consequently, students receive various prizes distributed at the end of every training period.

- Every student obtains a military uniform and takes jeans, a shirt and black shoes for free.

Military Training Scheduling:

1- Military Training for the first academic year and the preliminary year is performed during the summer vacation in accordance with the yearly-prepared program for the universities by the military education Department at the university.

2- Special training periods are to be held for the -failure-to-attend students but with accepted excuses, with regardless of the academic year in which they are registered.

Military Training Conditions / Terms:

1- All regular, Egyptian students in universities except those upon which exemption terms are applied.

2- All regular, Egyptian students transferred from other universities which do not offer military education, or those who failed in it with regardless of the academic year.

3- All students transferred from the irregular system to the regular one within their universities with regardless of the academic year.

Exempted from Military Training:

1 Reserve Officers

2 Police Officers

3 Soldiers who spent the training period in the Armed Forces

4 Students who spent more than six months (6 months) in the military academies

5 Immigrants (not from the Arab Republic of Egypt)

 Those who are inflicted with infectious (transmissible) diseases in accordance with the medical department of the university.

 

 

Excluded from Military Education:

1- Female students

2- Irregular students

3- Non-Egyptian students