Financial Times for The American University in Cairo
Award-winning, unbiased journalism equips faculty and their students with a global mindset
Enrich your curricula with FT insight
The FT’s digital education program provides a platform to deliver our award-winning journalism to faculty and students, customized to suit the needs of each course. Our unique commentary and analysis will bring your university’s existing curricula to life, with tools that can deliver a blended learning experience and link classroom theory to real world context.
- The FT’s education subscription comes with a suite of learning tools to allow faculty to bring our content seamlessly into the classroom.
- Customizable experiences allow faculty to follow their chosen topics of interest and create virtual reading lists aligned with the courses being taught.
- The FT's extensive country-specific news briefings have been invaluable preparation for students' international trips and experiences.
The Financial Times' suite of learning tools
Through articles, blogs, videos, and podcasts, the FT provides the global education community with authoritative news, analysis, and comment, as well as powerful learning tools that can be seamlessly integrated into your university's content management systems.
Customized News Feeds
Faculty and students can follow news from over 1,000 topics including themes, countries, people or companies. All relevant stories appear in your personalised myFT news hub or as email digests.
Virtual Reading Lists
Topic based article feeds or curated reading lists can be integrated into learning and content management systems such as Blackboard, Canvas & Moodle.
FirstFT + Weekly Quiz
Read our editors' curated pick of the best global news, commentary, and analysis from the FT and the rest of the web. Every Friday we release a weekly quiz to test students’ knowledge.
Portfolio
Get comfortable managing your own stock portfolio. Learn new vocabulary with a built-in glossary, track markets and their movement, see the news stories that are associated with each stock, and more.
Workflow Integration
Topic based article feeds or curated reading lists can be integrated into learning and content management systems such as Blackboard, Canvas & Moodle.
International Trip Preparation
Customizable country specific news briefings can be delivered to designated groups of students in preparation for their international trips and experiences.
Additional features for education users
- Editorial Newsletters: Pick from a wide range of daily and weekly newsletters, which provide specialist analysis and selections of further reading.
- Weekly Business School Newsletter: Get the latest management insights, picks of the most relevant FT articles from leading professors, and the latest in business education.
- Special Reports: Save time on research and get valuable insights, with an online library of reports on countries, industries and business topics.
- The FT App: Read FT news and analysis wherever you are, with unlimited mobile and tablet access.
- Highlighting tool: Now in beta testing, this highlighting function allows readers to select key points from FT articles and save them so they’re easy to find and return to.
- Single Sign On: Users who are logged into your university network can view FT content without having to enter their FT account password. We work with access federations including UKAMF, OpenAthens and eduGAIN. We can also do peer-to-peer integration through ADFS and SAMLP.
- IP Authentication: We use IP ranges to deliver a seamless one-time registration process for faculty and students.
- Multi-platform Access: Read FT news and analysis via desktop, tablet, mobile, and our third-party channels.