North Sinai school teacher Ashraf Hefni, denouncing Hosni and Gamal Mubarak, during a protest by the teachers in downtown Cairo…

Around 30 teachers from different provinces protested Saturday afternoon in Hussein Hegazi St, in front of the ministerial cabinet building, against the Education Ministry’s assessment exam. The teachers also denounced their state-backed union, calling for the establishment of a “free syndicate.”

I’ll post more pix and details about the teachers’ fight later…

El-Badeel reports…

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 [...]