u/Chil_Holiday_Man

I was planning to fix my phone's screen after it fell. Very easy to do yourself, btw. But when I checked the price for a replacement screen, it made more sense to get a new phone.

€60 for the screen itself, plus €10 for the special tape/glue that attaches it to your phone. That's fucking crazy for a 5-year-old phone that’s now worth at most €190.

The EU really fucked Europeans when they added additional tax for all non-EU orders. Instead of preventing waste, it's creating more.

I know it's just €3, but you have the €2 charge from AnPost, the delivery charge, and VAT.

And yes, I know most people aren't buying repair parts. But these prices are killing hobbyists.

The sheer scale of the turnaround was detailed by Shiraz Chakira, Chief of Education for UNICEF Egypt, who stated unequivocally: “We are confident that the education system is being restored.”

The data presented by Chakira was little short of staggering. Student attendance, which languished at a dire 15%, has surged to 87%. Classrooms that once crammed over 100 students together have been eliminated entirely. In primary schools - the system’s most severe pressure point - average class sizes have dropped from 63 to 41 pupils. Furthermore, learning time has increased by 58%, and a targeted 60-hour remedial literacy program for grades 3 to 6 saw Arabic literacy scores jump by over 50% in just three months.

“This is not just one single change,” Chakira observed. “It is a coordinated system-wide effort.” He emphasised that the introduction of weekly, grade-linked assessments was the behavioural catalyst that drove students back into the classrooms, reconnecting the act of attending school with the tangible outcomes of learning.

Amine Marai, the study’s lead researcher and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, underscored the unprecedented speed and fiscal efficiency of the reforms. Over just two years, the Ministry of Education tackled a massive deficit of roughly 467,000 teachers through a blend of redeployment and new hiring incentives.

More impressively, the state addressed its infrastructure bottleneck without breaking the bank. By creatively repurposing existing spaces and bringing underutilised facilities back into service, the ministry effectively created 98,000 “new” classrooms - a 20% expansion of system capacity.