The Ministry of Education was forced to temporarily hire European teachers for mathematics and drawing in 1897. This arrangement is still considered temporary, awaiting the availability of qualified Sudanese teachers. It is certain that mathematics and drawing were previously taught in Arabic, at least during the first two years of legal education. As for the other subjects in technical and financial schools, such as medicine, law, and engineering, instruction was in English or French out of necessity. The Law School, since its establishment in 1848, has primarily used European languages for instruction. The government attempted at various times to teach in other financial schools in Arabic, but these changes proved detrimental to the standard of education in these institutions. The difficulty was not limited to finding specialized teachers who could keep pace with European advancements, which is currently impossible. There is another difficulty: the scarcity of Egyptian technical books in Arabic due to fundamental reasons. The annual demand for such books in Egypt barely reaches ten, or even a hundred, copies. It is well-known that sciences in Europe advance rapidly, rendering technical books outdated shortly after publication, no matter how comprehensive they are. There may be European experts who wish to acquire Egyptian books, but the limited circulation and market for them would not justify their publication.

Some may argue that the government should overcome this difficulty by translating all important European works into Arabic. However, translations, no matter how well done, cannot perfectly match the original. Furthermore, the poverty of the Arabic language in technical terminology, the complexity of its sentence structures, and the convoluted phrasing all hinder its suitability for technical literature. Even if qualified translators could be found and the obstacles to obtaining permission from original authors to translate their works were overcome, translations would require significant financial resources, making them unaffordable. Moreover, they might be outdated before they are even published.

The Ministry of Education has recognized the necessity of utilizing many Arabic works and translations in medicine and arts, distributing them at nominal prices because they are no longer suitable for the Egyptian market, and finding buyers at any price.