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The launching of the 2nd international Conference of Alexandria University
Alexandria University President Dr. Essam El-Kurdi opened the 2nd international Conference of Alexandria University under title of "Knowledge integration and innovation: Pathways to Progress" within the celebrations of the diamond Jubilee of AU. The conference activities will last for three days in the conferences Hall of the Faculty of Medicine.
In his speech, Prof. Essam El-Kurdi said that this conference is a continuation of the approach of knowledge integration between all the scientific, humanities, basic and practical disciplines. He also referred to the role of the university in Egypt that extended to the Arab and African countries through its branches in South of Sudan and Chad as well as cooperation relations with many international universities, that reflected on the position of the university in the world rankings of universities such as the Times Higher Education Ranking and Shanghai Ranking.
AU vice President for Education and Student Affairs Prof. Hisham Gaber, said that the conference comes in a transition period in Egypt where we need to apply the integrated scientific approach to face the problems of the community. He stressed on the necessity to work on the investment in education outputs for the benefit of the country and citizen to achieve a better future for current and future generations.
Prof. Dr. Fathi Abu Ayana, the Professor in the Faculty of Arts and the Rapporteur of the conference said that the Arab and Islamic civilization had a leading role in the integration of knowledge and the establishment of a lot of sciences, the humanity bears the fruit today as many Arab intellectuals were masters in basic science and most of them applyed the principle of knowledge integration, which became the hallmark of developed societies that adopted an integrated system in the scientific knowledge to take the advantage of modern science for society development and upgrading.
Prof. Mohammad Rafiq Khalil, the Professor in the Faculty of Medicine underlined the role of the university as an entity in which all the disciplines are existing and cooperating as one system.
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Othman the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in his speech said that Egypt throughout the ages had many scientists who represented a form of knowledge integration like Imhotep, who was a doctor, philosopher architect and artists, in addition to Aristotle, Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd, while in modern times there is Einstein and Mustafa Musharafa.
The opening ceremony was attended by the AU former presidents and vice presidents as well as faculties deans and deputies and faculty members. The ceremony included a documentary film about the university on the occasion of the 75th anniversary since establishment.
AU President: development of personal skills of the students to build graduates able to act in the labor market
Alexandria University President Dr. Essam El-Kurdi emphasized the importance of improving the personal skills of university students to build personality capable of dealing with the labor market. He indicated that AU has established career development center and entrepreneurship "CDCE" in the university for this purpose and organized several courses for personal skills development in partnership with a number of international companies and the businessmen associations.
This came during an observation in the faculties of Engineering, Agriculture and Science, in the second day of the academic year 2017/2018. Dr. Kurdi was accompanied by Dr. Hisham Gaber, AU vice president for Education and Student Affairs and faculties Deans in his meeting with the students.
Dr. Hisham Gaber emphasized importance of student's activities of cultural, social and sports activities. He said that the university had increased the number of scholarships provided for the Nile Basin countries to promote research and innovations to offer them its full support.
"El-Kurdi": the academic programs will be updated according to modern education systems in international universities
Alexandria University President Dr. Essam El-Kurdi pointed out that the university put its potential at the service of the educational process, with a view to prepare a generation capable of contributing actively in the development process. He added that this year which marks the Diamond Jubilee celebrations on the occasion of 75 years since establishment will witness an update in the regulations of the academic programs according to modern
education systems in the world universities. The Rector called all faculties deans to follow-up the education process from the first day of the academic year 2017/2018 in all university faculties with regular lectures in accordance with the tables announced in each faculty.
This came during an observation tour in theoretical complex on Saturday morning 16/9/2017 during which he was accompanied by Prof. Dr. Hisham Gaber, AU vice president for Education and Student Affairs and faculties Deans and deputies. The tour started by flying the flag of Egypt, the national anthem and saluting the flag. The tour included faculties of Tourism, Law, Commerce, Education and Arts in addition to medical clinics and the university cities in Smouha.
Curriculums of the four years are collected on CD in "Commerce"
The Council of Deans of Alexandria university during its urgent meeting on Tuesday 12/9/2017 headed by university president Dr. Essam El Kurdi approved the proposal of the Dean Dr. Alsayed Alsaify to provide curriculums on CD for the students of the four classes in the Faculty of Commerce and to provide computer labs.
He also suggested to provide 300 copy in the library for free borrowing and to create recordings and videos by each professor to be available on YouTube.
The Council also approved the proposal of the acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts Dr. Ghada Moss who suggested to generalis the trail of providing electronic books for the open education system.
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.