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The council of deans reviews the final preparations for the new academic year
The council of deans in Alexandria University held an urgent meeting on Tuesday 12/9/2017 headed by Dr. Essam El Kurdi to review the final preparations for the new academic year starting on
Saturday 16/9/2017. The Council emphasised on announcing the study tables and finalising all maintenance work before the start date. The Council also reviewed the security procedures to insure the safety of the education process. The Deans would provide a list of vacant halls to solve the problem of some overcrowded faculties due to maintenance work in some buildings.
Dr. Essam El-Kurdi asked the Deans to finish the proposals of updating the regulations to convert the studying system to credit hours with a deadline the end of coming December.
Alexandria University is ready to receive 170,000 students
Alexandria University President Dr. Essam El-Kurdi declared that the university is ready to receive 170,000 students on Saturday 16th of September 2017 in the new academic year as the maintenance are almost done for buildings and laboratories. He added that a new payment system was developed for the tuition fees using "Fawry" service and post offices. Dr. Kurdi said that the study tables will be published in the first week and will be available via the web site of each faculty. In addition, the electronic gates and security cameras will be used to secure the students and the education process. He added that there will be more student activities in the new academc year.
In the health care field, the Rector stated that the medical examination is carried out on the new students especially for Virus-C, and a health card will be issued for all students by specialized doctors and equipped pharmacies.
Alexandria University Deputy for Education and Students affairs Dr. Hisham Gaber declared that the university cities is near to finish all preparations to receive the students before the starting date of the new academic year. The suitability of all buildings and facilities of the university cities were reviewed including restaurants, activity halls, playgrounds and libraries. Dr. Gaber confirmed that all maintenance works were carried out for all the facilities to insure its validity to serve the students.
It is worth to note that the capacity of AU cities is 7000 students distributed in Smouha, Saba Basha, Merghem and El Shatby in addition
to the university cities attached to the Faculty of Physical Education and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine with a capacity of 500 students.
Dr. Hisham Gaber: Alexandria University started a total development and maintenance plan for university cities
Alexandria University Deputy for Education and Students affairs Dr. Hisham Gaber declared that the university started a total development and maintenance plan for university cities buildings. He said that the student has the choice of accommodation without meals for 150 EGP or accommodation with meals for 350 EGP. He indicated that the accommodation in university cities costs 1300 EGP for each student where the university pays the differential costs.
This came during the urgent meeting of AU council of Deans held on Tuesday 12/9/2017 and headed by the university president Dr. Essam El-Kurdi.
El-Kurdi: Alexandria University is still lower in collecting the tuition fees
Alexandria University President Dr. Essam El-Kurdi declared that the university is still lowe in collecting the tuition fees. He stated the increase in tuition fees by 300 EGP for practical colleges and 150 EGP for theoretical colleges will be allocated for the development of the education process in the university through a central fund for this purpose.
This came during the urgent meeting of AU council of Deans held on Tuesday 12/9/2017 and headed by Dr. Essam El-Kurdi.
Medical examination for the new students in Alexandria University
Alexandria University President Dr. Essam El-Kurdi declared that the medical units in university faculties will start to receive the new students for the academic year 2017/2018 for medical examination. He indicated that the university develops a health file for each student to follow up his health status over the duration of his university life. He stated that the examination would include complete examination for Virus-C and treatment program for any patient for free under the national campaign in order to virus-C lunched by the president Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.
Alexandria University Deputy for Education and Students affairs Dr. Hisham Gaber stated that university clinics and laboratories are ready to receive the new students for medical examination according to a prepared timetable that all procedures will have been finished by 5th of October 2017.