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Alexandria University Council Honours Faculty of Law Team, Second Place Winner in “Arab Moot Court” Competition
The Alexandria University Council, headed by Professor Dr. Abdelaziz Konsowa, President of the University, honoured on its meeting, the team of students of the Faculty of Law at Alexandria University, who won the second place in the “Arab Moot Court” competition in its ninth edition, which was recently held in the State of Kuwait, under the auspices of Kuwait International Law School.
In his speech, Dr. Abdelaziz Konsowa extended his thanks and appreciation to the Kuwait International Law School for the distinguished efforts it made during this competition. He also thanked the administration of the Faculty of Law, Alexandria University, indicating that Alexandria University always seeks to develop educational curricula, use modern technologies, and focus on continuous training to have highly efficient alumni with creativity and innovation.
While Dr. Mohamed El-Feky explained that the Arab Moot Court is a scientific legal competition that brings together students of law schools in the Arab world annually for scientific competition on a hypothetical case, through which students are trained on how to write legal notes and plead before a committee of arbitrators with the aim of honing legal talents and work on the excellence of the participating students through the exchange of experiences and different cultures. He pointed out that the team of the Faculty of Law, Alexandria University, started the national qualifiers stage since last December, which ended with winning the first place, and then went through several stages of the qualifiers, in which 23 universities representing 13 Arab countries participated in the competition. This competition, which is one of the most prominent legal competitions in the Arabic language, ended with the Alexandria University team winning the second place after a strong match.
* The honorees are:
- Dr. Mohamed Hassan Kafafi, Assistant Lecturer, Department of Criminal Law, Faculty of Law
- Students Ibrahim Ahmed Sarhan, Basant Abdelhamid, Youssef Momtaz Hanna, and Farah Maher Zidan.
Presidential Decree Appointing Dr. Rehab Mahmoud Seddik as Dean of the Faculty of Early Childhood Education
Professor Dr. Abdelaziz Konsowa, President of Alexandria University, received Dr. Rehab Mahmoud Seddik, where he congratulated her on the issuance of the presidential decree appointing her as Dean of the Faculty of Early Childhood Education, wishing her success in assuming the duties of her position, and continuous efforts to raise the level of the faculty. He stressed that the university will provide all forms of support and assistance to help her in carrying out her mission successfully.
Education and Student Affairs Council of Alexandria University Conveys Eid Greetings to its Members
Professor Dr. Wael Nabil Abdel Salam, Vice President of Alexandria University for Education and Student Affairs congratulated the Council members on the occasion of Eid Al-Fitr, during the meeting of the Education and Student Affairs Council, today, Wednesday, the 19th of April.
* He also congratulated Dr. Nelly Mostafa, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy, and Dr. Mahmoud El-Sehli, Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, on the occasion of the University President’s decision to appoint them as assistants to the Vice President for Education and Student Affairs.
* Professor Dr. Wael Nabil congratulated Alexandria University for winning the first place in the Ramadan Football Five-a-side Tournament for international students, which was held under the title of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Cup for international students in its first edition.
* He congratulated both the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Commerce for winning the first place equally in the Choir and Solo Singing Festival. Dr. Wael Nabil pointed out that Alexandria University is in the process of developing a plan for the choir team at Alexandria University to reach a level of professionalism that qualifies it to participate in local and international competitions.
* Within the framework of active cooperation between Alexandria University and the industrial community, the Council approved a cooperation protocol between the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University, and the Center for Industry Modernization, to cooperate in the fields of exploiting the outputs of the faculty students’ projects in various departments, to meet the challenges facing the Egyptian industrial society.
* The Council also discussed several issues related to the problems facing students in the credit hours system and developed mechanisms to solve them, in addition to discussing the development of the elective university requirements and developing a vision to be applied for the new academic year 2023-2024.
The Council of Postgraduate Studies and Research is considering entering the ALECSO Science Portal to link academics and scientific institutions with a unified Arab portal
Dr. Ashraf El-Ghandour, Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, confirmed during the Postgraduate Studies and Research Council held this morning, Tuesday, corresponding to 4/18/2023, that the digital library has conducted an initial evaluation of the Alexandria University journals, which scored 7 points in the evaluation of local Egyptian and Arabic journals. affiliated to the Supreme Council of Universities and the Academy of Scientific Research, in order to determine the readiness of these journals for inclusion in the Scopus database, the JCR database, and the DOAJ directory. With the aim of studying strengths and weaknesses to improve these journals before submitting them for official evaluation during this year, indicating that Alexandria University has 5 local periodicals that are already on the DOAJ directory and the university is currently working on adding 13 journals to the directory during this year, and the university is also working on improving the following scientific journals The Alexandria Journal of Land and Water Sciences, the New Journal of Agricultural Research, and the Alexandria Scientific Journal of Nursing will be added to the Scopus database as a first stage, and then complete the rest of the journals with 7 degrees in the local classification, respectively. This is in order to connect researchers, academics, and scientific institutions from all over the world with a unified Arab portal, and enable them to create their own introductory pages, and link them with their other pages on similar science portals, as well as social networking sites, so that this portal becomes a tool for selecting experts, arbitrators, and participants in its projects and conferences. And its upcoming seminars are among those registered in it, and Al-Ghandour stressed the need to cooperate with the organization to activate the portal and circulate it to universities, institutions, and research, academic and scientific bodies in the Arab Republic of Egypt.
* The Council approved the cooperation agreement between Alexandria University and Irbid National University.
* The Council also approved the cooperation agreement between the University of Alexandria and the University of Airlangaa in Indonesia.
* The council approved the cooperation agreement between Alexandria University and Shandong normal university ginan, china.
* The Council approved the cooperation agreement between Alexandria University and the Faculty of Health Sciences (fort hare) in South Africa.
* The Council approved the cooperation agreement between Alexandria University (Faculty of Physical Education for Boys) and Mutah University (Faculty of Physical Education).
Alexandria University Wins First Place in Ramadan Football Tournament for International Students
Alexandria University won the first place in the Ramadan Football Five-a-side tournament for international students entitled “The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Cup for International Students (First Edition)”, which was held Thursday evening, in the presence of Professor Dr. Abdelaziz Konsowa, President of Alexandria University, who handed the Championship Cup to the Alexandria University team.
This Ramadan tournament comes on the side-lines of the activities of the workshop organized by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research on the international students system, in light of the national strategy for higher education and scientific research, in the presence of Dr. Ayman Ashour, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, a number of Egyptian university presidents, ambassadors and cultural advisors in Arab and African embassies, in addition to a group of Ministry leaders, as well as several international students from different nationalities.
