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Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse, an infuriating court verdict wraps up the hasty trial of what I vote to be the most tragic incident of 2008: the death of 11-year-old Islam Badr in a public school

ALEXANDRIA: An Alexandria court handed 23-year-old mathematics teacher Haitham Nabil Abdel Hamid a six-year jail sentence with hard labor, for kicking 11-year-old Islam Badr to death last October. The verdict was announced Thursday afternoon amid serious objections by both Badr’s and Abdel Hamid’s families.Badr’s family said the verdict was too lenient

ALEXANDRIA: Islam Badr’s family were left frustrated Monday after the Alexandria Court postponed its verdict in the case of 23-year-old mathematics teacher Haitham Nabil Abdel Hamid, accused of kicking the 11-year-old student to death last October.

CAIRO: One of the remaining vestiges of Egypt’s socialist era is free education from elementary school to university-level, but in the never-ending calls for education reform, rarely is this free model

CAIRO: Amid the noisy, crowded streets and bustling activity in the Cairene squatter settlement of Mansheyat Nasser, in the basement of an unpainted building, 25 women have decided to change their destinies.

Some professors may have trouble adjusting to a revamped education system. CAIRO: Outdated curricula, unqualified graduates, obsolete education methods and inefficient evaluation systems are some of the most common problems facing the higher education system in Egypt.Having identified

CAIRO: The Cairo Administrative Court Tuesday issued a ruling that bans the presence of police officers on Cairo University’s campus.The verdict obliges the university to employ civilian personnel as security guards. While the verdict only concerns Cairo University, its effect should extend to all Egyptian universities, Cairo University professor Abdel Galil Mostafa from the faculty of medicine told Daily News Egypt.

CAIRO: Two Helwan University students have filed a legal complaint against police officers they say physically assaulted them on the university campus.Nagy Kamel and Mostafa Shawqy, both engineering students

CAIRO: Mohamed and John are two school students studying the same books on opposite sides of the Atlantic. In Egypt, Mohamed, who goes to an international school, learns that the capital of Israel is Tel

CAIRO: Eleven-year-old Islam Amr Badr, a student at Saad Othman Primary School in Alexandria, died Monday after being kicked in the stomach by his mathematics teacher. It began when the teacher reportedly hit a few of the students — Badr included — with a ruler as punishment for not completing their homework.