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Western, Qalyubia, Beheira, and Aswan monitored a private school that existed in its directorate. As for girls' education, the interest did not decrease. A primary school was established for them in Dakahlia, and a kuttab in Beheira, managed by an Englishwoman. A domestic science school in Giza, and an information school in Minya.
As for industrial, agricultural, and commercial education, the Dakahlia Directorate Council established teams for commercial education in Mansoura. The Gharbia Directorate Council spent 17,000 Egyptian pounds on building an industrial and commercial school in Tanta, which is a school for teaching accounting in El Mahalla El Kubra, and two schools for practical agriculture, one of them in Bilbeis. Last October, the Beheira Council took over the industrial and agricultural school that was managed by a private committee in Damanhur. Its students numbered 304 in the industrial section and 47 in the agricultural section. The Girga Directorate Council took over the commercial and industrial school in Sohag. The existing industrial, commercial, and agricultural schools have progressed well, and they are the ones that follow the directives of the Industrial and Agricultural Education Department of the government.
At the end of 1912, the number of schools managed by the directorate councils, either by administration or by financial support, was 847 kuttabs with 47,088 male students and 5,235 female students, and 120 schools for training kuttab teachers with 679 male students and 208 female students, and 18 industrial, agricultural, and commercial schools with 2,097 male students, all of whom were males, and 67 primary schools with 7,449 male students and 181 female students. In total, there were 953 schools with 64,377 students, of whom 5,713 were male and 4,742 were female. It was mentioned that the number of Muslims and Copts learning in these schools is 93% Muslims and 7% Copts, which almost matches the proportion of the two communities in the country.
The reports indicated the directorate councils' neglect of public utility works. He said that it was decided to allocate 73,300 Egyptian pounds for these works, but only 6,000 were spent. I am now pleased to mention that the councils spent 48,863 Egyptian pounds on these important works last year and allocated an amount of not less than 910,000 Egyptian pounds for them this year. There is no doubt that what spurred their interest in these works was the government's proposal to them to appoint committees from their members specifically for these utilities, so that one committee would focus on public works and another on health matters.