Arab Educational Information Network

Education is one of the basic requirements of the population, which must be kept in the priorities of development plans, because provides all the institutions of the state competencies and expertise. Geographical that has been taken from the education the subject of research. That education and include community school ,represents a large part of the population ,as required of educational institutions , including the distribution of these institutions constitute a raw material for geographical research. The search taken education as an indicator of the development, depended Egypt as a case study, it relied on a statistical method - factor analysis - in achieving results, a method supported by geographers in the study. Based on this statistical technique was possible to draw a map of the governorates of Egypt's education (twelve) through the analysis of the variables under study and the number of ten variables are: 1) total value of the evidence of learning at the province level. 2) The rate of literacy of the population over the age of 15 years. 3) The total enrolment for all academic levels. 4) Rate of illiteracy among adults. 5) Who have average educational qualifications. 6) Gross enrolment ratio for primary school (enrolment rate in the first row). 7) Rate of educational indicators (student / teacher and student / teacher and pupil / class and student / class). These variables reduced to two variables, first so-called factor (educational level) and the second factor (access to basic education. In order to deepen in the differences in education between rural and urban areas in the provinces under study, were compared between urban and rural and with each other and the adoption of the technique statistical himself in the analysis, and finally to determine the variation in the level of education between urban and rural areas adopted the correlation coefficient spearman to know that a relationship. (Published abstract)