By Mokhtar Alibrahim. Every day at 1:30 in the afternoon, the bells ring at the Mohammed Salahuddin Al-Habaj Secondary School for girls, in the Syrian capital’s Mezzah neighborhood. The female students head out, making room for a group of older male and female students to enter the building—students from Qasyuon University. More...

By Ahmed ElShamy. A group is going to court to fight what it says is the illegal practice by Cairo University of requiring professors to pay a minimum fee of 10,000 Egyptian Pounds (about $1,250) before they can travel. The university insists the fees are optional, although a written decision it issued indicates otherwise. More...

By Islam Alzeny. During a recent discussion with his fourth-year journalism students about their class projects, Adnan Bumetea made an unpleasant discovery: Two of his students had done identical projects. “They bought the project from the same stationery store,” said Bumetea, a professor of magazine production at the University of Bahrain. More...

By Tarek Abd El-Galil. The conference promotes the concept of teachers as researchers in the field of education and is encouraging them to write research papers based on the realities of their work and to develop common proposals for improving teaching tools and methods. More...