Options for Special-Needs Students Are Few at Egyptian Universities
This article is published in cooperation with Mada Masr. In 1976, Stephen Hawking, a pioneering physicist and research director at the Center for Theoretical Cosmology at Cambridge University, proved...
View ArticleStudent Union Elections Canceled in Egyptian Universities
* This article is published in cooperation with Mada Masr. Students across Egypt are outraged after the Supreme Council of Universities canceled this year’s student union elections for “legal...
View ArticleDropping the Right to Free Education?
* This article is published in cooperation with Mada Masr. Aya Morsi never wanted to study law, but like thousands of other Egyptian students, her high-school grades gave her no other option. Enrolled...
View ArticleDeath is This Week’s Headline in Egyptian Education
This article is published in cooperation with Mada Masr. Egyptians woke up to a series of headlines detailing violent student deaths this week, with one university student and two schoolchildren dead...
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Tahrir Academy’s Shutdown Casts a Shadow Over Educational NGOs
* An earlier version of this story appeared on Mada Masr. In what might be a harbinger of the fate of educational NGOs in Egypt, a popular online collaborative learning platform, Tahrir Academy, is...
View ArticleUniversities Are Places Where Everybody Has the Right to be Wrong
This interview is published in cooperation with Mada Masr. Lisa Anderson, the president of the American University in Cairo, will step down at the end of this year, ending a five-year term. She has...
View ArticleAfrican Educators Consider Potential of Online Learning
A sense of urgency about improving education in Africa dominated a recent eLearning Africa meeting that brought 1,200 educators and experts to Cairo. “We are not going to wait until 2063,” said Yasser...
View ArticleThe Price of Master’s and Doctoral Degrees Jumps in Egypt
This article was published in conjunction with Madamasr.com . CAIRO— Pharmacist Sara Mahmoud paid almost 5,000 Egyptian pounds ($562) for her clinical pharmacy degree at Tanta University, a large sum...
View ArticleShrinking Egyptian Economy Could Cramp Social Sciences
This article is published in cooperation with Mada Masr. Millions of Egyptians have been hard hit by the government’s decision to float the Egyptian pound against the dollar and the partial lifting of...
View ArticleHow Egypt’s Currency Plunge Trapped a University
CAIRO—The American University in Cairo has been recently plagued with a serious financial problem. On November 3, the Egyptian government let its currency, the pound, float against the dollar instead...
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