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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Khodra...
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