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Dr. Hesham Gaber: Restoring the activity of the theater team of Alexandria University
Dr. Hesham Gaber Vice President of Alexandria University for Education and Students Affairs stressed the importance of nurturing youth talents indicating that the university is keen on organizing several activities to provide the opportunity for students to practice their hobbies and enhance their talents. He also declared that the university decided to restore the activity of the theater team of the university.
Dr. Gaber said that the university has recently finished the artistic activity for the academic year 2015 - 2016 with announcing the results of the competitions of theatrical arts and choral where the chorus team Faculty of Specific Education won the first place then the Faculty of Commerce while Faculties of Engineering and Arts came in the third place together.
For single singing, the student Shorok Hesham from the Faculty of Commerce won the first place and the student Mostafa Mohamed Mostafa of Specific Education came second and the student Ahmad Magdy Faculty of Engineering in the third place.
In the competition of the theatrical arts, the Faculty of Engineering won the first place equally with the Faculty of Commerce while the Faculty of Fine Arts came in the second place with the Faculty of Economic Studies and Political Science and finally the Faculty of Tourism in the third place.
For the Acting prizes, the student Younis El Shaear from the Faculty of Engineering and Abdul Rahman Yussef from the Faculty of Tourism won the first round competition where Yousef Abdel Salam from the Faculty of Fine Arts won the second round. The student Aya Samir from the Faculty of Tourism with Yara El Hawary won the first round competition for girls where Rania Alaa and Hager Haikal won the second round.
Africa Day activities in Alexandria University
Prof. Dr. Rushdi Zahran, the President of Alexandria University stressed on university interest to promote the distinctive relationship with African countries, explaining that the policy of the university is to establish branches and research centers in Africa. He added that AU has a branch in N'Djamena - Chad including faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, while the study will start next October in the branch of Tung city in South Sudan with 4 faculties of Agriculture, Veterinary Medicine, Education and Nursing.
Dr. Zahran added that the regional Ethiopian Egyptian center for sustainable development in Ethiopia is under construction containing 3 research centers in fields of family health, energy and water resources and food, and cultural and social studies.
Dr. Zahran declared that Alexandria University hosts 750 African students studying in the university headquarters in Alexandria among 6000 foreigners belonging to 60 countries from most regions of the world.
This came during the opening ceremony of Africa Day organized by Alexandria University on Thursday, 23 June 2016 in the Conferences Hall of the Faculty of Medicine under title of "Africa inside Alexandria University heart". The ceremony was attended by ambassadors of African countries and members of its diplomatic missions in Egypt in addition to African and foreigner students studying in Alexandria University and in presence of university deputies and faculty members.
The Rector underlined of AU keenness on continual development of the academic programs and creating new programs and providing an appropriate education with a target of preparing a highly qualified and graduates with competitive and leadership skills, in addition to sustainable development of the capacities of faculty members and continuous review of administrative and academic structures to keep pace with the latest global updates that should achieve constant updating of the institutional capacity of the university especially that the AU has 450 international conventions with various universities around the world, including agreements to confer mutual degrees in undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He added the mutual degrees recognition with outstanding international universities confirms the global confidence in the academic capacity of Alexandria University.
Ambassador Mohammad Idris, assistant of the Minister for African Affairs affirmed the importance of Alexandria University role in cooperation with Africa, indicating that the enrolment of African students to study at Alexandria University represents a life and accommodation experience in historic city that shall contribute effectively to the cultural exchange with African countries.
He said that this event comes within Egypt celebration of Africa Day with all its meanings of solidarity, interdependence and the African joint action.
Mr. Anthony Lewis, the Ambassador of South Sudan in Egypt expressed the pride of his country towards the Egyptian role in education and freedom in Africa over the years and stressed his own pride being graduated in English Language Department of Alexandria University. He also stated that the Egyptian diplomacy in the field of education was one of the most important factors of the convergence of South Sudan and Egypt citizens, explaining that every city or village in South Sudan has citizens who have educated, lived or treated in Egypt.
The event included an exhibition for educational programs and recent activities of the University that can be provided for the African countries as well as the existing cooperation works and numerous presentations on the relations between AU and African countries. There was also an induction on the cooperation initiative entitled (Pan African) being implemented in some faculties of the university.
Alexandria University Vice president: Master and PhD theses must have practical benefit
During the meeting of Graduate Studies Council, Dr. Seddik Abdul Salam, Vice President of Alexandria University for Graduate Studies and Research stressed on universities role in supporting the trend toward a knowledge-based economy through utilizing the scientific research to serve the national economy and promotion the development and continuous cooperation between university and industry.
He added that the Master and PhD theses must have practical usefulness and to representa scientific add value.
A committee to establish standards for the grants of prominent students
With the deep concern of Alexandria University for encouraging outstanding students, the Council of Education and Students Affairs headed by Dr. Hisham Gaber decided to form a committee to establish standards for providing grants of special programs in university faculties for outstanding students from secondary schools.
"Gaber": cases of fraud are less than 0.5%
The Council of Education and students Affairs of Alexandria University headed by Prof. Dr. Hesham Gaber, Vice President of the University for Education and Students stated that all faculties finished the second semester exams for the academic year 2015/2016.The Council held a session on Monday, 20 June 2016 explaining that this year exams has been marked by good organization and a few cases of fraud less than 0.5% as 572 cases from 150,000 students performed exams in various university faculties.