Latest in Tag: education Highlight
Latest in Tag: education

Victory for AUC students
Striking students win tuition fee cap

Thesis defence held in Nile University sit-in
Protesters speak against Nobel prize winner’s condemnation of their strike

Students victorious as British University strike ends
University president signs approval for compensation package

March to cabinet demands social justice
Hundreds join in Cairo university protest march
In Pictures: University workers’ march
Demanding social justice, a rally of hundreds of university workers gathered outside the Cairo University dome

Nile University sit-in continues as academic year starts
Students continue protest by holding classes off campus

Operation Smile: changing lives, one smile at a time
Assiut university hosts volunteers from around the world for an educational and surgical mission

Conference to fight contempt of religion
Scientists discuss fighting contempt of religion

Student groups fight back
18 student movements and parties criticise the Egyptian Student Union’s attempt to dominate the drafting of governing bylaws

When the bankrupt are pushed to pay
By Mohammed Ali Ibrahim Once upon a time I wrote in Algoumhoria newspaper that we don’t need another Mahathir Mohammad here to score an economic miracle like that of Malaysia. Rather we need the Malaysian people who achieved that leap into the future. The occasion of the aforementioned article was the visit of the Malaysian prime minister …

GUC referendum results out
Students give administration one-week deadline to adopt new bylaws

Morsy addresses Egyptian and foreign audiences
Egyptian president interviewed by NYT and State TV on Saturday
In Pictures: AUC protest escalates
Following attempts by striking AUC students to lock the gates of the campus to prevent people from entering, the university’s administration elected to completely remove the gates to allow free traffic. Later on, it closed its campus and subsequently announced the university would suspend all operations until further notice. Photos by Hassan Ibrahim
Review: columnists consider Al-Nour party, Nile University conflict and division between Arabs
An internal dispute within the Salafi Al-Nour party captures the attention of one columnist, while another focuses on the ongoing conflict on the Nile University campus. The reasons behind Arab disunity are also considered, as is the removal of revolutionary graffiti in Tahrir square. What happens inside “Al-Nour” party kills the darkness Emad Al-Din …

Nile University Students strike at Press Syndicate
University strike continues

GUC referendum held despite violence
Ballot boxes attacked by university security

AUC shuts down campus
Striking students lock down campus, demanding tuition relief

Five suspended AUC students referred to disciplinary committee
University’s administration outlines student strike fallout

Nile University sit-in resumes outside campus
Nile University protesters joined by different political movements in off-campus protest

Transport strikes escalate as educations strikes continue
Transport workers escalate their strike after spokesperson of their union was arrested

Nile University sit-in broken up
Security forces violently clear Nile University campus of protesters
EU doubles Palestinian aid to €200 million
€100 million to provide clean water, health care facilities and education

Back to the drawing board, teachers and transport workers are on strike
Teachers, on strike since last week, vow not to return to work unless they receive wage raises, as the school-year begins

Generation Z leads the pack in ‘bring your own device’
Digital natives carry their work, play or school everywhere

Comfortably numb: identifying the root of Egypt’s drug problems
Despite, or perhaps because of, the prevalence of recreational drug use in Egypt, especially with regards to hashish and marihuana, there seems to be a ‘blind-eye’ approach to the presence of the country’s underlying and more problematic drug culture

Nile University sit-in gains support from student activist groups
Government committee to convene on Tuesday in effort to resolve crisis

Land disputes threaten student facilities
Members of the NU conduct a sit-in, opposing confiscating their campus buildings

Concert for charity
Tawasol for Developing Establ Antar is an nongovernmental organization (NGO) which works with children who have dropped out of school. The NGO says it provides around 140 primary school children with a chance to continue education and teaches them sports.
Education financing solutions surface as academic year approaches
By WaleedAbd El-Azeem This year Ramadan coincided with academic preparations for the new semester, as students apply for private universities and schools. Banks are trying to seize the opportunity by offering financing solutions for tuition. The United Bank is at the top if the list of banks offering education loans, with an upper limit of …
At least think clean!
By Alya Essam Driving out of Cairo’s neighbourhood of Dokki last weekend, I saw a group of youthful girls and boys dressed up in yellow phosphoric coloured vests and latex gloves. A group was holding brooms, and the other was simply collecting piles of waste in the nearest green-coloured garbage bins. I mumbled and recalled …