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During its meeting this morning, headed by Dr. Ali Abdelmohsen, Acting Vice President of Alexandria University for Education and Student Affairs, the Education and Student Affairs Council discussed the academic time plan for the academic year 2023/2024 in accordance with the decision of the Supreme Council of Universities during the first semester, which began on the 30th of September and continues until the 4th of January , 2024, provided that the mid-year vacation takes place during the period from the 27th of January until the 8th of February , 2024. The second semester begins on the 10th of February 10 and continues until the 30th of May 2024. The second semester final exams begin during the month of June 2024 according to the nature of the study and exams in each faculty, in accordance with the details contained in the approximate annual calendar proposal received from the Supreme Council of Universities.
Dr. Ali Abdelmohsen stressed to the faculties’ representatives the necessity of adhering to the directives of developing their laboratories, as this academic year is the year of modernization of the laboratory equipment for the undergraduate level at the university, as the laboratories in the faculties of the medical, scientific, and technological sectors as well as the language and computer laboratories of the humanities sector will be modernized.
The Council also approved a proposal to submit the Faculty of Early Childhood Education for program accreditation for the program “Preparing an Early Intervention Specialist in the Field of Special Education for the Early Childhood Stage.”
The Council witnessed a presentation by Dr. Sameh Nakhla, Director of the Measurement and Evaluation Centre at Alexandria University, which addressed the time plan for measurement and evaluation work at the Centre during the current academic year, which includes preparing the training plan for each faculty, which includes formative assessment, a table of graded scale specifications, oral and practical policies, and the beginning of an academic advising evaluation indicators project in each faculty, which includes projects to evaluate academic advising in university faculties, question banks for Alexandria University, and academic governance.
