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ELITE Vol.1, issue 34, August 2021
Vol.1, issue 34, August 2021

My experience in the joint Arab work in the Arab

Women's Organization was excellent, and the distinction

of the work teams I worked with contributed to its

success

National Council for Women, led by Maya Morsy who has department with us as well, which makes BUE the first
worked extensively on various issues, including attentively university to incorporate business administration, economics
dealing with the complaints that the Council receives via its and political science in the same faculty.
hotline and cases of violence against women, with a number We have around 60 faculty members and 70 teaching
of shelters also working to provide care for those victims of assistants and assistant lecturers, most of whom are
violence. Having said that, we hope for more progress and for appointment, but there are also some who are on secondment,
wider programs that target men as well as woman, with a including myself, and the following colleagues from FEPS:
potential role for religious discourse in this regard. Drs. Ali El-Din Hilal, Amany Massoud, Sally Isaac, Moataz
Abdel Fattah, Ahmed Gad and Heba Ezzat. And we all work
together as a team and hold various student activities that help
Professor Wadouda Badran, Dean of Faculty of Business prepare students for the job market.
Administration, Economics and Political Science, the
British University in Egypt (BUE), what does this place When I first joined BUE, the Faculty did not have a
represent to you? What makes it special and what aspects postgraduate program. But now, we offer a professional
are you seeking to improve? master’s in business administration and academic master’s in
political science and economics, with an academic master’s in
I joined BUE when I assumed the position of Dean of Faculty business administration scheduled to launch in September.
of Business Administration, Economics and Political Science Our graduates receive a double degree: one which is
in November 2013 and this was my return to academia after a accredited by the Supreme Council of Universities and
period of almost 12 years. This experience has given me a another in cooperation with our partner, London South Bank
broad knowledge of the British education system and quality University. Perhaps one of the challenges I face is balancing
management according to British standards. The Faculty’s between the requirements of each of the Egyptian system and
programs have been put in place in collaboration with our British partners, which is not easy, but it can be done by
Loughborough University, one of the UK’s top 10 working together with my colleagues. Thus, our work
universities, and we have received accreditation from environment is generally encouraging, with a lot of teamwork
NAQAAE, the National Authority for Quality Assurance and involved; and I believe in the importance of such teamwork
Accreditation of Education. Our Faculty is also a bit different and in the notion that you are as strong as your team.
from FEPS because we have the business administration

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