This paper provides a profile of education in Egypt using the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey
of 2012 and its predecessors. Both trends over time and differences by background
characteristics for various education indicators are examined. Progress has been made in terms
of school attendance, educational attainment and similar aspects such as dropout. However,
school quality needs to be substantially improved. Attendance of private schools and
universities as well as the frequent reliance on private tutoring signal that the quality of public
schools is low. The evidence in this paper also points to inequality in education opportunities
and outcomes. Socioeconomic background, specifically wealth and parental education,
strongly affect the different aspects of education in Egypt.