Just 12 German Teachers for the Whole Red Sea Governorate; Emergency Meeting Called for Sunday
Education directorate sources say an urgent meeting on Sunday will try to contain the row in Hurghada's language schools, where pupils who had already started German were moved to French.
24 September 2026
The Red Sea education directorate has called an emergency meeting for Sunday to contain the row over German teaching at several of Hurghada's distinguished language schools, after collective complaints from parents and pupils, sources at the directorate told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
The dispute followed a decision to drop German as the second foreign language and move pupils to French - after the school year had already begun, and after those pupils had chosen German and were attending German lessons.
The number at the centre of it: the whole of the Red Sea Governorate has no more than 12 German teachers, according to reports cited by the paper. The shortage is not new. It goes back years, and pupils were at times registered for the subject even when no teacher was available to take it.
Parents are asking for the teacher shortfall to be fixed quickly and for their children to keep the language they chose.
The report does not say how many pupils have been moved to French, which schools are affected, or what the directorate intends to put to parents on Sunday.
This site has followed the dispute since 20 September, when the directorate's director-general of general education said the change applied to new pupils only and that those who chose German in earlier years would keep it. Today's account is harder: pupils already studying German were switched, and the governorate has a dozen teachers for a language that much of its own labour market runs on. Germany is consistently the largest source of visitors to this coast, and German is a hiring qualification in its hotels and dive centres.