Type Private President Tarek Khalil Website www.nileu.edu.eg Founded 2006 | Established 2006 Campus Smart Village Campus Phone +20 16453 | |
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Location 6th of October City, Egypt Address 26th of July Corridor, Giza Governorate, Egypt Motto Creating a Learning Culture Similar French University in Egypt, Modern Sciences and Arts, Misr University for Scienc, Sinai University, Future University in Egypt Profiles | ||
Nile university s official youtube channel
Nile University (NU) is a not-for-profit institution of higher education. The University was established in Egypt in July 2006 by the Egyptian Foundation for Technological Education Development (EFTED).
Contents
- Nile university s official youtube channel
- Corruption Allegations
- Research Centers
- Academic programs
- Nile Universitys Collaboration
- NU Board of Trustees
- References
The Egyptian Foundation for Technological Education (EFTED) is a not-for-profit organization, dedicated to improving technology-related education.
NU is a research university, offering graduate and undergraduate studies in Engineering, Technology, Management and Management of Technology (MOT). NU's emphasis in research and development (R&D) activities is in the area of Communications and Information Technology.
Corruption Allegations
As part of former Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif's strategic plan to introduce research-based universities to Egypt, NU went through a controversial ordeal when a complaint was filed on February 9, 2011 to the attorney general against Nazif, accusing him of abusing his position to gift public land and buildings to NU for its new campus. One week later, the new cabinet decided to transfer control of the new campus from the university to the cabinet’s Education Development Fund (EDF). The charges include Nazif abusing his powers by illegally allocating land worth LE 2 billion to build a new campus for the university. A corruption investigation was launched to examine the relationship between NU and the former government official.
Some claim the corruption charges leveled against the university were politically motivated. Former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafik, who was appointed during the revolution after the removal of Nazif, made what university officials characterize as a political move against Nazif by seizing NU’s assets. However, university officials pointed out in the media that it’s impossible to return land to the government when it’s already owned by it. The plan was for NU, categorized as a non-profit university, to rent it from the ministry. Shafik’s decision to confiscate the new campus merely moved ownership from a government organization (the communications ministry) to a governmental fund.
However, the land was ordered to be returned to NU by Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court in April 2013. "It also ruled that NU should be registered as a 'civil' university," states Yasmine Wali of Ahram Online. "The court went on to stress the importance of maintaining NU – which enjoys the status of a legal state entity – and avoid changing students' legal situations.
Research Centers
Nile University's researchers are operating in 6 research centers focusing on areas of critical importance :
NU is a strategic partner of the recently established Egypt Nanotechnology Center and undergo research in topics directly related to issues of development and national priorities in the sectors of food, health, traffic and environment. Such as:
Academic programs
School of Communication and Information Technology
Graduate School of Management of Technology
School of Business Administration
School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Nile University's Collaboration
Nile University has collaborations in the region with:
NU has been interacting with universities to discuss possible collaboration in academic as well as in research programs. NU currently has signed collaboration agreements and memoranda of understanding with the following institutions: