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04:19 PM Friday, April 26, 2024
Books – Omar Fares:
Helwan University issued an official statement regarding preventing Sarah Hisham, a student at the Faculty of Computers and Information, who suffers from cancer, from taking exams.
She explained that the college administration followed everything that was circulated regarding the student, and was careful not to respond on social media in order to preserve the privacy of the student’s condition, but since the matter was published in media outlets, the following must be clarified:
1- No college official, whoever he may be, can take any decision regarding whether or not to expel a student, and this can only be done by the decision of the College Council.
2- The college does not accept trading in the psychological, moral, and scientific support it provides to our students who are going through special health conditions or who are people of determination, noting that the university provides full medical support to all students in Helwan University hospitals or outside it.
3- The university cares about the condition of our children with disabilities, and not just those who are experiencing health conditions, especially since His Excellency the President of the University has appointed an advisor for people with disabilities.
4- We sympathize with all humanitarian situations, but we cannot violate the law or turn a blind eye to any attempt to implicate the college in any violation.
secondly:
1- The College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence is a regular college with an attendance rate of no less than 75% of the lectures. If the absence rate exceeds 25%, the student is prohibited from attending the exam.
2- The student joined the college in the academic year 2020-2021
3- The student passed the first level for the academic year 2020-2021
4- The student stumbled in the second level from the academic year 2021-2022 until now.
5- The student was given a final exceptional opportunity to raise his cumulative GPA in College Council No. 317 dated 9/17/2023 in appreciation of her health condition, noting that the regulations stipulate that the student will be expelled if he is unable to raise his cumulative GPA during four consecutive semesters.
6- The student did not accept academic advice to make an excuse for the first semester in accordance with the regulations out of concern for her academic future, as the regulations stipulate in Article 11B: The student is credited with a period of interruption from study with an acceptable excuse for two consecutive semesters or four non-consecutive semesters.
7- The student served the four academic warning times in the second semester of the academic year 2022-2023.
8- In appreciation of the student’s health condition and not to violate the law, similar cases of students were studied and a memorandum was presented to 28 students applying for four consecutive semesters to give them a final opportunity and to implement the spirit of the law. Giving an exceptional opportunity was presented to the College Council and they were all given the last exceptional opportunity on 9/17. -2023.
9- The decision to expel a struggling student means giving him another chance at a new college, out of concern for the student’s academic future so that he does not waste more years without the student achieving academic achievement.
The student, Sarah Hisham, recorded her complaint on social networking sites and received sympathy regarding her dismissal, explaining that the college and its agent for education and student affairs were abusive against her and that the decision to dismiss her violated the college’s regulations and the law.
