Letter to the Editor: Stop the Subcontracting!
If the housekeeping staff becomes subcontracted, they will no longer see AUC as a place of employment, but merely as a site of work.
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Forbidden Intimacies: Homosexuals Branded Mentally Ill in Egypt
Sexual identity remains a taboo topic across the Middle East; women who feel comfortable expressing themselves sexually are shamed, but it is perhaps homosexuals (men, in particular) who bear the brunt of it.
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Joint Effort by Heya and CIMAL Brings Egypt’s Leading Women to the Stage
Mesh Bel Tashkeel (Without Arabic Diacritics), was the title of a talk series held in collaboration between Heya: The Feminist Initiative and Cairo International Model United Nations (CIMAL) featuring leading contemporary Egyptian women.
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Government Engages with AUC Students to Ensure Quality Education
Last week, under the title of “Bridging Gaps and Building Trust”, the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education (NAQAAE) hosted a workshop on students’ role in the quality assurance of higher education.
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How Newly Elected Student Union President Gadalla Plans to ‘Unify Differences’
The Student Union (SU) in the past year has navigated negotiations between the administration and the student body in response to the spike in tuition fees, the court ruling and mass demonstrations.
In the midst of these events, construction engineering senior Mohamed Gadalla was confirmed as the new SU President on April 4.
Read MoreLetter from Nepal: What Development Won’t Tell You about the Third World
We often have a certain stock image of what constitutes an underdeveloped country: heavily crowded, dirty slums, high crime rates and possible political unrest spread throughout. During Spring Break I visited the anomaly of all underdeveloped countries: Nepal.
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قرارات الجامعة تشعل الغضب بين العاملين.. والإدارة تنفي
قررت إدارة خدمات الجامعة الأمريكية في بداية شهر مارس، برئاسة نويل كنيل، تخفيض عدد ساعات العمل الإضافية المتاحة للعمال بالجامعة الذين أبدوا اعتراضهم واستيائهم الشديد حيال ذلك الأمر.
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Tuition Fees Spike Following Administrative Court Ruling
On March 17, the Board of Trustees (BoT) approved removing the US dollars percentage from the tuition fees and fully expressing it in Egyptian pounds for the following academic year.
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Robotics Team Conquer Regional Rounds
The AUC Robotics Club is now qualified for the regional Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) competition, to be held in Alexandria next month, after having won the national competition on February 25.
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تـنـبؤات لاقتصاد مصر بوصوله للمركز الـ١٥ في ٢٠٥٠
تنبأت شركة «برايس ووتر هاوس كوبرز» (PWC) أن مصر سوف تكون ضمن أحسن ٣٢ دولة في العالم في الإقتصاد في عام ٢٠٥٠، وذلك في تقرير أصدرته الشركة في شهر فبراير.
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