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while being broadly divided into co-operators and intran-
sigents, is now for the time being reunited. Moreover,
as King Fuad has by no means abandoned his ambition
to restore personal government, and Lord Lloyd has
attempted to revive the patriarchal proconsulates of
Cromer and Kitchener, this coalition is likely to continue.
But to avoid risking a restoration of the Protectorate or
a return to Palace government, the Nationalist coalition
is maintaining co-operation with the British through
Moderate Ministers like Adli and Sarwat. The question
now is whether this Concordat can be kept going until
exercise of the rights of self-government has educated
the Egyptian nationalists into a more reasonable rela-
tion with British interests.
There seems to be a good prospect of such a rap-
prochement. For in the exercise of its new self-
governing powers the Egyptian Parliament is showing
itself both efficient and energetic. It is not only rapidly
educating itself, but it is slowly educating an emanci-
pated Egypt. Thus, in the matter of school education,
Egypt has made commendable advances that compare
well on the whole with those of other new nations. In
1922 the Budget vote for education was for j£i, 144,385,
raised in 1924 by Zaglul to ^1,714,689, and thereafter
annually augmented. In 1922, out of a population of
13-3 millions, nearly half a million children were being
educated in the Egyptian schools, some fifty thousand in
foreign schools, and about five hundred students in
Europe. In 1892 there were two hundred and twenty-
nine students receiving higher education; to-day there
are ten times that number. Nevertheless, higher educa-
tion in Egypt is still below the European standard, and,
as the report of the University Commission remarks, still
too exclusively concerned with professional training. El