Education and training Support and enhance cooperation in reforming and upgrading the education and training systems and work within the framework of Egyptian plans towards convergence with EU and international standards and practice. — Combat illiteracy and achieve education for all, especially for women and girls, by continuing the reform of the education systems, and pre-school education aiming at early childhood development, — continue and enhance a policy dialogue between EU and Egyptian authorities in the field of education and training, — continue to reform primary and secondary education to improve quality, especially through continuing decentralisation and community involvement and human resources development for teachers and professors, as well as technical vocational education and training (TVET) to make it more responsive to market needs in the context of the Egyptian national educational standards, — reform higher education in line with the principles of Bologna process to improve internal and external efficiency. Foster the development of human resources and human capital, and promote the reform of higher education through the Tempus programme; ensure the integration of the social dimension in educational planning and programmes, —