The Minister of Education directs to accept students included in the postponed expansion and to observe the university calendar in the primary and higher studies

Date: 17 May, 2021

 The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Professor Nabil Kazem Abdel-Saheb, has instructed to accept students included in the postponed expansion in postgraduate studies until the academic year 2022/2021 and not to postpone their studies and to observe the times of the university calendar In preliminary and postgraduate studies. In his message to the members of the Opinion Commission, government and private universities and colleges, he stated that: While he thanks the good efforts in following up electronic lectures in governmental and private universities and colleges, he stresses the necessity of daily checking the applications for postgraduate applicants for the academic year 2022/2021, and the inputs of the departments and scientific branches. And he directed that students who are included in the postponed expansion in postgraduate studies be accepted to the academic year 2022/2021 as a final expansion and not to postpone their studies, while universities and colleges continue to study online at the level of primary and higher studies until a new decision is issued by the Supreme Committee for National Health and Safety. In his message, the Minister of Education stressed the need for universities, colleges, departments and scientific branches to adhere to the university calendar for the academic year 2021/2020 and to make the necessary preparations for the next academic year 2022/2021 in light of the times of the university calendar. He directed the Studies, Planning and Follow-up Department in coordination with the Ministry of Education regarding the numbers of the sixth preparatory students and overcoming the obstacles that faced the department in the central admission for the year 2021/2020 and organizing the dates for the exams for the sixth preparatory in a way that does not interfere with the timing of the exams in the universities while the supervision and scientific evaluation department and the two studies departments are in charge of