Teachers staged sit-ins and demonstrations on Sunday in Cairo, Alexandria, Daqahliya, Fayoum and Minya, chanting against the state-backed Teachers’ Syndicate and the Minister of Education. Slogans included: “We want a free syndicate! Life has become tough!”

[The govt's "assessment exams" torn to pieces by angry teachers in front of Helwan University. Pic by Comrade Gaber.]

Abnaa Masr reports…

We need to pay more attention to this… It is part of the growing white collar workers’ revolt…

Sarah Carr reports…
About 120 school teachers expressed their rejection of government plans to link pay increases with teachers’ performance in assessment exams at a protest Thursday.
Teachers say that the examinations are “humiliating.”
During the protest, which took place on the steps of the Teachers’ Syndicate in Zamalek, demonstrators held up banners reading “No to testing of [...]

The Giza school teachers are protesting the govt’s employment reforms package tomorrow Thursday 1pm, in front of the Teachers’ Syndicate in El-Gezira….

Mostafa reports…

Sarah Carr reports…
Local schools are denying Bahais the right to enroll their children, five months after an Egyptian court recognized the right of members of the minority religion to leave the religious affiliation field on birth certificates and ID cards blank.
Adel Ramadan, a lawyer with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) — which brought [...]

Bahgat, Ma’adi Corniche, Cairo…

Read a report here…

From someone who was present at the last AUC Senate meeting…
auc senate is considering a statement discouraging the invitation of israeli academics
they are weighing risks of losing accreditation vs the obvious moral choice
58-42 in favor of boycott.
Anyone has more details?
UPDATE: Some updates from the AUC Senate meeting…
“Revised AUC Senate Resolution in Support of Palestinian Academics [...]

Read about it here, here, here and there…

I think the experience of the professors’ national strike on 23 March is worth more examining, and there are plenty of lessons to be learned from it.. One of the things I like about the current campaign is the blog the profs launched, not only to publicize their action, but also to communicate with [...]