Minister of Communication and Information Technology Amr Talaat has said his ministry is close to completing six technology parks in Minya, Menoufiya, Mansoura, Sohag, Qena, and Aswan.
He added that the technology parks will be opened after the end (...)
Deputy Prime Minister Ali al-Selmy has announced amendments to Articles 9 and 10 of the draft constitutional principles document that pertain to the armed forces, as well as the article related to the constituent committee tasked with writing the (...)
Professors of six state universities have announced that they would go on strike Saturday to demand the resignation of their presidents. They said colleagues of other state universities would go on partial strike to express solidarity.
The new (...)
About 200 students and professors from Ain Shams University staged protests on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of their president, Maged al-Deeb,
and the election of new faculty deans.
Students and professors belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood (...)
Members of 17 political parties and movements have marched to the cabinet building to protest the Emergency Law. They held banners warning of the hijacking of the revolution.
The marchers were joined by supporters of Omar Abdel Rahman, who is (...)
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 (...)
Sources at Cairo University said that within a few days Higher Education Minister Motaz Khorshed will accept the resignation of Hossam Kamel, the president of the university, and appoint his deputy, Hussein Khaled, as acting president until a new (...)
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 Coalition of Egypt's Student Unions, which is comprised of 17 student unions in addition to faculty members, has called for demonstrations and open sit-ins on 13 September to demand the removal of state university leaders.
The demonstrations are (...)
In the wake of the government's failure to dismiss state university leaders, students are calling for a million-strong demonstration on 13 September to press the government into action.
In March, protests began for dismissing all state university (...)
Cairo University President Hossam Kamel and all his aides will submit their resignations to Minister of Higher Education Motaz Khorshed on Tuesday, even though their terms have not yet terminated.
The resignations come in response to demands by a (...)
Fixing the recently damaged floating dock is not impossible, said the former member of the Suez Canal commission and former chairman of the Suez arsenal company of 12 years, Wael Kadour. He assured the process of fixing the dock will need a couple (...)
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.
The (...)
Hossam Kamel, the dean of Cairo University, stripped the dean of the Faculty of Mass Communications, Sami Abdel Aziz, of his financial and administrative powers on Sunday.
The move follows nearly two months of student protests demanding the (...)
Hundreds of students and university professors staged demonstrations before the cabinet on Tuesday, demanding the dismissal of university presidents and faculty deans by the end of this academic year.
The protesters are demanding that in future (...)
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 (...)
After a cabinet statement this week explained that Mubarak's regime used Law no. 10 of 2003 to force telecommunications companies to cut off internet and cell phone service during the revolution, the National Telecommunications Regulation Authority (...)
Ousted President Hosni Mubarak has so far escaped investigation in connection with the killing of demonstrators during the 25 January revolution because none of the suspects in the case have implicated him in their testimonies, according to a (...)
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 (...)
The government will disburse LE47 million to the state-run newspapers, purportedly to compensate them for losses incurred during the 35 January Revolution, according to the cabinet's facebook page which carried a memo about the agreement dated 10 (...)
Egypt's poor weather will continue from 17 to 19 January, the Egyptian Meteorological Authority (EMA) said on Saturday.
EMA's head, Mohamed Eissa, said that Cairo, Lower Egyptian provinces, Sinai, and northern regions of Upper Egypt will witness (...)
Egypt can expect three days of sandstorms countrywide starting Friday, according to Egyptian Meteorological Authority President Mohamed Mahmoud Eissa.
“Low clouds are expected to cover the skies of the northern and eastern parts of the country, (...)