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| | Al-Ahram Weekly | Chronicles | Education's growing pains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Meanwhile, Douglas Dunlop, the British adviser to the Ministry of Education, was entrusted with devising a strategy to improve standards of education in the katatib and gradually transform them into a primary medium for elementary schooling in the countryside. |
 | | Secondly, the idea was clearly a pet project of the British occupation authorities, as embodied in Lord Cromer and Dunlop. |
 | | Both were seen to be using the project, on the one hand, as an excuse to evade the public demand for new primary educational schools and, on the other, to counter the growing movement to found a national university, a drive spearheaded by nationalist leader Mustafa Kamel. |
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