On April 25, President of the University Prof. Abbas Mansour opened the annual scientific conference on education in the Arab world at Faculty of Education in Hurghada in the presence of Vice-president for Postgraduate and Research Affairs Prof. Mahmoud Khodari Maeila, Vice-president for Student Affairs Prof. Mohamed Abulfadl Badran and Vice-president for Luxor Campus Prof. Saleh Abdel Moaty. According to Prof. Abbas Mansour‘s speech, the conference aimed at facing the different challenges in education with participation of a large number of experts in Egypt and the Arab world. Besides, he talked about the importance of keeping pace with the development of education in the world via developing curriculum and using the modern methods of education. Additionally, he referred to the role of the university in promoting the scientific research as honoring 237 researchers through the different scientific prizes .A related points to consider were that the conference discussed 90 researches and involved holding 5 symposia and 3 workshops as stated by Rapporteur of the Conference Prof. Ashraf Mahmoud.