The Supreme Administrative Council rejects the equivalence of the Engineering Certificate of England in Egyptian Universities

The Supreme Administrative Court dismissed the call of the engineering student who obtained the equivalent of the Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of London, England, with the certificate of Electronic and communication engineering issued by Egyptian universities.

In its decision, the Court affirmed that Article 6 of the Executive Regulation of the Law on Universities issued by the President of the Republic stipulates that "the Higher Council of Universities shall form a committee for the". equivalence of scientific degrees, and foreign institutes at different levels of study, and equivalent degrees of Egyptian universities, the adoption of the recommendations of this committee of the Supreme Council of Universities. "

Reasons for the decision that this committee has wide discretion when they compare degrees because the work is purely technical The Supreme Council of Universities presented the equation of the appellant to the committee and decided that the degree obtained by the candidate from the University of London, England, in the field of electrical and electronic engineering, did not achieve the engineering degree issued for by the Egyptian universities. As the number of courses studied by the candidate is less than 25% of that taught by Egyptian university students, the decision of the President of the Supreme Council of Universities to reject the equivalence of the degree obtained by the student underlines that the decision not to match him. General, and then became a healthy and legal decision, all the more so as the Supreme Council is a broad discretionary authority in the equivalence of diplomas.