The security department at Cairo University has prepared a report on the candidates running in the upcoming faculty elections, classifying them according to their political inclinations, thus reviving a practice common in Egyptian universities (...)
Higher Education Minister Moataz Khorshid announced on Monday the elections timetable for state university leadership posts, as well as the mechanisms by which elections will be conducted.
Candidates for the elections will be invited to submit their (...)
Higher Education Minister Motaz Khorshed said Wednesday that deans of state-owned universities will now be elected by committees comprised of all types of faculty members, including part-time professors.
The minister explained that departments with (...)
The Faculty of Arts at Cairo University conducted on Saturday its first internal elections for the position of dean, which will become vacant at the end of July.
Seven professors are competing to succeed the current dean, Zein al-Abidine Abu (...)
Egyptian Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour said on Saturday that a program to encourage domestic tourism will be launched by the end of the week, featuring cooperation between Egyptair, Al-Ahly Bank and the Ministry of Tourism.
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Cairo University has referred three professors of mass communication to a disciplinary council for allegedly inciting students to stage protests on campus.
Among them is Professor Mahmoud Khalil, who has been highly critical of the university's (...)
The Coalition of University Professors on Monday organized protests at universities in Cairo, Alexandria, Assiut and Mansoura, demanding the removal of their administrations by the end of this academic year and the election of new ones.
The (...)
Employees of Egypt's Trade and Industry Ministry have reportedly sent a notice to Attorney-General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces alleging that the ministry used to pay 72 high-ranking officers associated with the (...)
Ain Shams University President Dr. Maged al-Dib stated during an open discussion with university students and faculty members Wednesday morning that the university has decided to ban niqab-wearing faculty members from teaching at the university and (...)
Cairo University is featured among the world's best educational institutions for the fifth year running, according to the British QS Top Universities ranking.
Cairo University's vice president for post-graduate studies, Hussein Khaled, said the (...)
Cairo University will be awarding Egyptian first lady Suzanne Mubarak an honorary doctorate on Thursday.
Guests at the ceremony will be greeted with poster-sized photos of the most important figures to have received the distinction in the past 30 (...)
Al-Masry Al-Youm has learned that the marking of Thanaweya Amma (the last two years of high school) exam papers will be completed tomorrow, ending with chemistry exams. The results are due to be announced next week.
A number of exam graders have (...)
The state-run Scientific Research Academy is sending 15 Egyptian scientists from different universities and research centers for nuclear research training in Dubna, Russia next Saturday.
"The goal is to benefit from Russian expertise in the nuclear (...)
More than 100 Cairo University students belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood protested yesterday for the third time against a decision barring 60 students from sitting for their second-term exams and to expelling 17 from the Faculty of Engineering as (...)
Professors of hematology at the Qasr el-Aini, Ain Shams and Alexandria medical schools are angry that a number of Israeli professors are participating in a conference on blood diseases organized by a pharmaceutical company and being held in (...)
Tens of professors affiliated with the 9th March movement for University Independence demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research yesterday in protest of recent security incursions on university campuses. (...)
University teachers criticized the government for reducing allocations for funding education and scientific research in next year's state budget, saying the sector is crucial to development and should be given no less than an annual 5 percent of GDP (...)
Members of faculty staff clubs at eight Egyptian universities have announced their intention to go on strike later this month to protest salary shortfalls.
Members of Cairo University's faculty staff club said they preferred to meet with Higher (...)
The crisis of the university niqab ban deepened over the last couple of days as university management refused to allow female students to replace their niqab with medical masks.
Arguments broke out between professors and students at Zagazig (...)
The ongoing controversy over banning the niqab at some universities has reached new heights as niqab-wearers at Cairo University and Fayoum University sat for exams wearing surgical masks in an attempt to circumvent the ban on covering their (...)
University teaching staff clubs decided to take further action against Hani Helal, minister of higher education, due to the ministry's failure to pay out a fourth batch of bonuses aimed at increasing the income of academics. The bonuses stopped (...)
More than 1000 students wearing the niqab demonstrated at Cairo University on Tuesday to protest a decision of the Higher Council for Universities which prevents students from being admitted into examination rooms with their faces veiled.
The (...)