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The Australian School of
Cairo is presently seeking incorporation in Egypt as an educational
not-for-profit.
There are presently three
people on the founding board of directors:
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Afifi Selim Egyptian Consul General, Sydney (retired)
Commercial
Minister Plenipotentiary (retired)
Member, Board of Directors
Consul
General Selim is well familiar with Australia,
having finished his career with the Egyptian foreign service in Sydney after many years at the
Egyptian mission to the
European Union in Brussels.
His home is in Giza
Governate and he became
curious when Marck visited him at the offices of the Egyptian
Commercial
Service in Sydney,
October 2007, with the idea
of strarting an Australian English international school in Egypt Selim encouraged Marck to
look into the history and management of the British
School
of Brussels
and consider that general model for a school in Cairo. Marck
kept Selim abreast of his
developing ideas through late 2007 and early 2008. When Selim
mentioned, in
March of 2008, that he was also retiring to Cairo in April,
Marck asked Selim if he would
have time to join the ASC Board of Directors. Happily, Selim replied
that he
could make such time available. |
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Jeff Marck PhD
(Linguistics, Australian National University)
Managing Director
Member, Board of
Directors
Marck
retired to Cairo in
April 2008 from an academic
career that mainly involved language in Pacific Island
prehistory but also saw him involved in bilingual education since 1976.
He has
been visiting Egypt
since 1971 and spent a year in Cairo 2005-2006, buying a retirement
flat in
the Pyramids suberb. He was back at the Australian National University on an
Australian
Research Council Pacific prehistory grant, 2006-2008, and discussions
in late
2007 with Afifi Selim, Egyptian Consul General, Sydney, and Head of Egyptian
Commercial Services in Australia, led to the decision to establish an
Australian international school in Egypt. |
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Jo Hillman BEd,
GradDip, PostGradDip (Education)
Director of
Education
Member, Board of
Directors
Hillman
is a veteran educator from the Melbourne area of Victoria, holding
diverse
teaching positions 1985-1997 and, since 1997, holding diverse project
and
advisory positions, including work with Early Years Curriculum Policy
in South
Australia (2002-2005) and work over the last two years as Literacy
Advisor to
the Association of Independent Schools of South Australia and as a
Reading
Recovery Leader for the Victorian department of education. She is
currently
working in the United Arab Emirates We are fortunate that she was
looking for
education work in Cairo
(as her husband has
lived here previously and they had decided to live and work in Cairo
over the coming years). |
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