The mission of the Australian School of Cairo (ASC) is to 
bring Australian education to Egypt, a simple formula that has proved popular elsewhere in the Middle East, Asia and beyond.

Three areas of excellence first concern us: 

• superior English language development
• superior English language university entrance results
• superior Arabic and Islamic education

Our community building will be in the context of these objectives.

We intend to accomplish this by attracting and keeping excellent Australian teachers. We hope to achieve teacher compensation at the Australian scale and other incentives are in place to find and then keep a core of superior Australian teachers.

The objective of superior English usage will be serviced from the beginning. Preschool teachers shall be certified Australian teachers who are native speakers of English and, when possible, bilingual in Arabic. All our preschool teaching assistants will similarly be native speakers of Australian or other English.

Jeff Marck, ASC’s Managing Director, is a PhD linguist who was first involved in bilingual education in the 1970s. As a linguist he has seen what it takes to develop students with native-like English accents and Jo Hillman, ASC’s Director of Education, has a special budget for allocating highly trained language specialists to work with each student’s accent from the earliest age.

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