Its teachers numbered 849 and its pupils 6063. The number of government kuttabs increased to 122, with 366 teachers and 889 pupils. The Ministry of Education supervised 4422 books. The latest bonus, due to financial aid, brought the number of teachers in these kuttabs to 6358 and pupils to 156542. The government began promoting technical education and spent 435,000 Egyptian pounds on building schools in the last ten years. However, the results do not immediately meet the urgent and insistent demands on the Ministry of Education, as it was not possible for intellectual and moral progress to keep pace with the material advancement of the country under these circumstances. It is not surprising, as the process of examining the curriculum takes longer than building an entire hospital. Another difficulty existed in the past and still exists now. I mentioned that Egyptians were eager for technical knowledge, but acquiring this knowledge is not achieved through study in primary schools. In most cases, it requires study in secondary schools and many higher education institutions, such as law and medicine, in particular. However, since young Egyptians considered the primary certificate sufficient for government employment and for advancement to well-paying positions, most of them contented themselves with studying in primary schools and did not exert themselves to spend long years and study difficult subjects in secondary and higher education institutions that would grant them greater confidence than primary schools. Therefore, the number of applicants for secondary certificates began to decline steadily. In 1901, to remedy this deficiency, it was decided that those seeking government employment with a primary certificate would not be appointed to positions with a salary exceeding 10 Egyptian pounds per month. This change in the system was implemented as intended, and the number of students in secondary schools increased steadily. However, those who are now appointed to positions equal to Europeans in government are few. It is estimated that there are two or three such individuals. They may revert to the previous system and not pursue secondary certificates, resulting in a lack of Egyptians who reach the required age and meet the necessary conditions among the appointed young men. They may struggle to obtain a secondary certificate or the intermediate certificate I mentioned in my last report (page 139). They will look, perhaps out of necessity, due to the time required to obtain this certificate, and the result will be the employment of a large number of Europeans for a period in positions for which it is not possible to find suitable Egyptian employees.