CAIRO, Nov 26 (MENA) – President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that the Military Academy has been keen to establish a student-selection system based on complete impartiality and minimal human intervention to ensure transparency and fairness.
Speaking during an interactive dialogue with students applying to the Military Academy, Sisi said “The first mistake we could make toward our youth is to allow applicants to feel the system is unfair or lacks transparency. This is why we have minimized human involvement to the greatest extent possible.”
He said military colleges accepts only small number of of total applicants. “If 70,000 students apply, no more than one thousand or fifteen hundred may be accepted. But if these applicants feel the procedures are not fair, then we will have failed at the very first step toward our young people.”
Sisi stressed that the Academy’s selection system relies on objective standards and technology-based assessment to prevent personal bias, saying: “We wanted the evaluation process to depend on automated knowledge. The data and figures before us fully reflect the applicant’s character.”
He noted that the remaining component is the physical-fitness assessment, which will be measured entirely by automated systems. “The devices will do the counting, and results are sent directly to the computer without any interference,” he said, adding that a large part of the evaluation process is now computerized, with only the final interview left.
On institutional development, Sisi said: “The development of states usually takes decades; natural progress may take a hundred years. But if a country and its youth possess the will to move forward, this timeframe can be significantly shortened.”
He added that the Military Academy was created to support this objective and accelerate the pace of development, saying: “Our idea was for the Academy to take on this role, and the first thing we focused on was proper selection, since each level—good, acceptable or excellent—has clear standards.”
