Arabic, Religion and National education (civics) when you are allowed to take igcse geography well its accepted by universities in egypt so why not take that instead of social studies or civics
also what is even the point of civics (like the stuff that you take in civics in egypt) if you are an igcse student too
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I would assume that the primary language and civics are required in almost any country. They are essentially to being part of society.
Also not surprised that Religion is mandatory in a ME country. It’s often still mandatory in very secular countries (It was for me, even though we just fooled around).
I don’t think there is anything unusual about Egypt here.
rulu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
but the thing is with civics in egypt is that I don’t like the real reason about why you should know about egyptian stuff like I don’t think that will be that useful for me in the future so yeah whats the point of egyptian civics basically
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
It’s usually where you learn how your government and institutions work, how to vote in elections, how to pay taxes, etc.
While these things seem very boring when you’re young some of them are quite important later on.
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
You have to have a shared cultural identity to be Egyptian
It’s not useful, hell it’ll be mostly half-truths and plenty of outright lies, but it’s a way to build cultural identity in a top down stort of way
Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
The point of civics class isn’t to be useful to you, the individual. It’s to make you useful to civil society.
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I agree, we had the same mandatory courses in the netherlands, although religion was more like religious studies where we learned about all the different religions.