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Prof. Heba Noah declares to the newspaper, confirming:

"The era of His Excellency President Sisi is the golden age for women, and if it
were not for his vision, I would not have assumed the Deanship of The Faculty of

archeology nor the position of cu- Vice President "

Now that you have achieved many and many fruitful achievements, in Of course, maintaining students' health was a priority for the Ministry
your opinion, have some of the goals been difficult to achieve? of Higher Education. Can you explain how Cairo University dealt with
In my opinion, the matter of achieving goals depends mainly on the the Ministry's decisions and how they were implemented?
management, where you find a suitable administration that does its work to the As for the Ministry of Higher Education, it issued a decision to stop exams
fullest; it is difficult not to achieve the goals. The credit for this is due to the for all transition years and to resort to research, to be written by students and
President of the University, Dr. Muhammad Al-Khosht, who was always be sent to their doctors. The problem was for seniors, as they had to take
making future plans in case of any emergency event, as he was keen on making exams at the end of the year. During this period we have taken all possible
the university fully prepared to face any possible circumstances. I have gained precautionary procedures. The three sectors met: Student Affairs Sector,
from him the skill of far-thinking and distant future view. One of the factors Security Sector, and Environment Sector. The environment sector was
that help to achieve all our goals is the university president's support for me responsible for providing medical supplies such as masks, sterilizers, and
and all my decisions, which made me always strive to be at my best. disinfectants. In the student affairs sector, I was concerned with distributing
You were in the Cairo University management team during the students. I asked each Student Affair Representative to announce to me the
exceptional crisis of Corona, tell us about the scenes of the first steps number of his senior students and halls designated for performing the tests. I
trying to adapt to this exceptional crisis in the history of the university? issued a decision to distribute students by 30% in the halls, meaning that the
Well, as soon as the number of very simple cases began to spread, we expected hall that can accommodate 100 students will have only 30 students so that
the possibility of the study stopping at any moment, so we had to work quickly there is a distance of one and a half meters social distance between each
and be fully prepared for this possibility. We issued a decision to the Student student and student, and based on that, I asked each agent to prepare a
Affairs Council asking all the representatives in all faculties to ensure that all distribution map to distribute students at this rate. I was also interested in
courses are uploaded on social media and the university’s website. Thanks to holding the exams for more than one period, that is, a day is allocated to
God, on the first of March 2020, all faculties’ courses were uploaded on the certain colleges for their students to perform their exams on this day, to
university’s website, where the platform was under implementation. We faced prevent overcrowding inside the university and to ensure the availability of
a problem in this matter, which is that not all professors accept e-learning, and sufficient halls for all students in the event the college does not
the idea of registering their courses, then uploading them on social media and accommodate its students with this new distribution ratio. As for the role of
the university’s website. For the sake of solving this problem, we decided the security sector, it prevented any accumulation inside and outside the
either to assign teaching assistants this task so that teaching assistants gain university; we coordinated with Giza's Security Directorate to prevent any
experiences and students benefit, or share teaching the course with another possible congestion outside the university at the gates. The halls were also
doctor who can upload courses. periodically disinfected, we coordinated with the Student Hospital about the
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We were also the first university to launch its courses immediately after the preparation of all backup supplies and ambulances for any emergency, and
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decision of the Minister of Higher Education to start distance education, and isolation rooms were also equipped in case any student felt any symptoms
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we were the first university to implement the decision of the Minister of Higher while inside the exam hall; he could complete his exam in the isolation
Education to make distance education essential and to conduct electronic room. If any student wanted to leave the exam and go home in case he
exams. Of course, the Student Affairs Representatives and the administration experiences any symptoms, he had complete freedom for that, as well will
have made a great effort in providing these services, and the representatives be tested later without harming his grades. Of course, whoever didn't want
have cooperated in implementing the decisions in the fastest time and to the to attend the exams had complete freedom and will be tested later.
fullest.
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