Egyptian Universities Research Articles

Perceptions of the Research Integrity Climate in Egyptian Universities: A Survey Among Academic Researchers.

Problem: Investigations regarding perceptions of the institutional research integrity climate in the Arab Middle East remain underexplored. Subjects: We surveyed faculty from three Egyptian universities. Method: We utilized the Survey of Organizational Research Climate (SOuRCe) tool, which incorporates seven subscales that measure different aspects of the research integrity climate. Responses were obtained from a 5-point Likert scale. Findings: Of the 228 participants, the subscales 'Regulatory Quality' and '[Lack of] Integrity Inhibitors' received the highest mean scores, whereas the lowest scores pertained to 'Departmental Expectations,' 'Integrity Socialization,' and 'Responsible Conduct of Research´ indicating areas in need of improvement. Conclusions: Academic leaders should set fairer expectations for research and funding for their researchers, ensure junior researchers are socialized into research integrity practices, and promote effective RCR training and availability of RCR policies. We identify specific targeted interventions to enhance the research integrity climate within these institutions.

Self-differentiation as an intermediate variable between anger management and neurotic perfectionism among high achievers “a psychological study of the rights of special education”

PurposeThis study aims to explore the intermediate role of self-differentiation in anger management and neurotic perfectionism for a sample of high achievers at some public universities in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. This increases the chances of these students obtaining their rights.Design/methodology/approachThe researcher used the microcopy of Drake, Murdock, Marszalek and [(the Differentiation of Self Inventory—Short Form (DSI-SF)] scale, differentiation of self child-adolescent perfectionism scale and Davidson and Munro (2000) scale of neurotic perfectionism in addition to the anger management scale of the current study. The researcher used the appropriate statistical methods and the descriptive design to find the results.FindingsThe results showed that there is no statistically significant difference among male and female students in the positive anger management while three was a statistically significant difference among them in the negative anger management favoring male students. Further, there were no statistically significant differences among the study sample according to the country (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) in anger management (positive and negative). Moreover, there was a correlation matrix between the study variables as shown in the study; The statistical analysis was conducted to identify the suggested constructive model and variables of the study, anger management (positive-negative) as an independent variable, self-differentiation as an intermediate variable and neurotic perfectionism as a dependent variable among high achievers, This explains the necessity of preparing the environment for these students to become more healthy, through which they can enjoy all their rights as a category of special education, where most of the focus is on the handicapped groups from special education more than the high achievers’ students.Originality/valueThe study recommended that higher education courses should focus on anger management skills and the development of self-differentiation and the positive part of perfectionism. Also, the current study provided the educators of higher education with some suggestions to promote it and develop high achievers, which may lead to positive mental and physical health for high achievers and raising awareness of society and obtaining their rights in education and life.

Sustainable hybrid education model and its relationship to academic achievement among postgraduate students in some Egyptian universities according to international quality standards

Sustainable hybrid education model and its relationship to academic achievement among postgraduate students in some Egyptian universities according to international quality standards

The effect of Organizational immune systems on crisis management strategies (A field Study on Egyptian Universities)

The effect of Organizational immune systems on crisis management strategies (A field Study on Egyptian Universities)

The effect of Strategic Renewal on organizational immune systems (A field Study on Egyptian Universities)

The effect of Strategic Renewal on organizational immune systems (A field Study on Egyptian Universities)

Promoting Active Transportation in Egyptian Universities: Assiut University as a Case Study

Promoting Active Transportation in Egyptian Universities: Assiut University as a Case Study

Implementation of the Sociolinguistic Competence Strategies in Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language

Examining the effects of applying sociolinguistic competency teaching strategies on university students' linguistic proficiency and sociological variance among EFL learners is one of the key goals of this study, which aims to investigate one of the major obstacles associated with learning EFL. The research objectives were investigated through the use of a quantitative, descriptive approach. A questionnaire was employed as a means of gathering research data. One hundred fifty EFL students from several universities in Egypt were chosen at random to participate in this study. The data analysis was performed using SPSS. The research findings show that the implementation of sociolinguistic competence teaching strategies has a positive impact on linguistic proficiency and sociological variation as perceived by university EFL students. The results revealed that there are statistically significant differences (α ≤ 0.05) in the impact of implementing sociolinguistic competence strategies for teaching EFL on linguistic proficiency and sociological variation as perceived by participants according to gender. In addition, the results revealed that there are statistically significant differences (α ≤ 0.05) in the impact of implementing sociolinguistic competence strategies for teaching EFL on language proficiency and sociological variation as perceived by students according to academic level. The findings of the study demonstrated how crucial it is to use sociolinguistic competency techniques to illustrate linguistic performance and sociological variances in order to achieve sociological realization. Furthermore, the results indicated that this is the primary method used by EFL students in Egyptian universities to develop sociolinguistic competence.

Improving Faculty Academic Staff Performance via Human Resource Management Practices. Applied study on private universities in Egypt.

Improving Faculty Academic Staff Performance via Human Resource Management Practices. Applied study on private universities in Egypt.

Evaluating the effectiveness of tourism departments in Saudi and Egyptian universities in achieving students' awareness of tourism for people with

Evaluating the effectiveness of tourism departments in Saudi and Egyptian universities in achieving students' awareness of tourism for people with

EEG training in Neurology Residency at Egyptian Universities

EEG training in Neurology Residency at Egyptian Universities

The role of new media literacy in shaping online learning satisfaction: Evidence from Egyptian universities

The role of new media literacy in shaping online learning satisfaction: Evidence from Egyptian universities

Guidelines for Enhancing the Learning Environment by the Integration of Design Flexibility and Immersive Technology (The Case of the British University in Egypt’s Classrooms)

The trend towards developing the space and technology in educational institutions is crucial for enhancing the learningenvironment. According to Basdogan & Morrone (2021), there is a lack of flexible learning spaces that accommodate allchanges, educational needs, and technological development. This study aimed to develop guidelines for enhancing learningenvironment by the integration of design flexibility and immersive technology. The study adopted mixed method approach:qualitative and quantitative methods, integrating the theoretical study of the flexible learning spaces design and immersivetechnology literature review into the applied study of proposing flexible technological learning space in the Britishuniversity in Egypt. Study findings determined the incapability of traditional learning spaces to adapt with all users needsin comparison to the proposed flexible technological learning space. The study concluded with the proposed guidelines,the limitations and further study recommendations.

Sounding the alarm regarding mental health of children and adolescents in relation to parenting style

BackgroundChildhood and adolescence are critical periods for physical and mental development. For that, sounding the alarm for the warning signs and red flags of children’s mental health disorders is important to promote good health and mental wellness throughout the lifespan. The aim of the study was to assess children’s and adolescents’ mental health in relation to parenting styles.MethodsThis study used a descriptive cross-sectional design. From early May 2022 until late October 2022, Zagazig University in Egypt hosted this investigation. Subjects: For this study, 400 parents of Zagazig University staff, employees, and workers who agreed to engage in the current study were gathered as a convenience sample. Tools: In order to get the required data, three tools were utilized. Tool I: A questionnaire for interviews to gather demographic information about the participating parents and their children. Tool II: Adapted Ontario Child Health Study Emotional Behavioural Scale: Parent Version (for children 4–17 years). Tool III: Parenting style scale.ResultsIt was found that criteria for conduct disorder constituted the highest followed by criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and major depression disorder with a mean and standard deviation of 15.10 ± 3.7, 12.83 ± 3.4, and 11.9 ± 2.8. Also, 66% of the participating parents practiced a permissive parenting style while 18% of them practiced the authoritative style and 16% for the authoritarian style.ConclusionIt was determined that criteria of conduct disorder were the most prevalent, followed by criteria of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and major depressive disorder. Additionally, there was high statistical significance between mental health disorders, parenting styles, and parental educational level. In order to protect children’s and adolescents’ mental health, this study recommended alerting parents and teachers about red flags and warning signs of mental health disorders for early detection and management. Additionally, educate parents about effective parenting methods and how to behave correctly with their children. Psychological counseling centers for seeking help should be available everywhere and announced.

Laughing to learn: harnessing student-developed memes in financial accounting classrooms

ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effect of using student-developed memes on students’ learning experience. It sheds light on the perceived usefulness of memes, a non-traditional active learning tool, and their effect on students’ performance in class quizzes. The study employs survey questionnaire and focus group design to collect data from classes of undergraduate introductory financial accounting course at a leading public university in Egypt. Results show that developing memes significantly enhanced students’ perceived engagement in class and interest in the course, which was generally viewed as boring. Students’ scores in class quizzes significantly improved relative to prior scores before developing memes and compared to scores of students who did not develop memes. This paper contributes novel evidence to a growing body of research on the impact of active learning in accounting education and suggests creative learning/teaching tools and areas of improvement for consideration in accounting education practices.

EFL College Programmes In Egypt And Saudi Arabia: Advantages And Difficulties In Intercultural Instruction

The present study evaluated faculty and student perceptions of the challenges and benefits of intercultural and multicultural education in EFL college classrooms. Using the descriptive approach through survey, the study further investigates the benefits and barriers to inter/multicultural education in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, including content integration, acculturation pedagogy, and the incorporation of cultural knowledge in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) courses as perceived by faculty and students in both countries. The sample consisted of 25 EFL instructors and 33 fifth and sixth-grade EFL students from King Khalid University in Saudi Arabia, as well as 45 TEFL students from Beni Suef University in Egypt. Findings revealed that while both teachers and students value cultural integration, challenges such as limited resources and cultural sensitivity persist.. Notably, the results showed that literature-based English teaching could be an efficient medium for introducing the target language culture to students. However, challenges include acquiring requirements to develop intercultural competence, professional development needs, and obstacles that hinder EFL instructors from teaching linguistic and cultural competence.

Knowledge sharing among academics from Egyptian medical schools during the COVID-19 pandemic

BackgroundSharing knowledge among scientists during global health emergencies is a critical issue. So, this study investigates knowledge-sharing behavior and attitude among staff members of 19 Medical schools in Egyptian universities during the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsAcross-sectional study was conducted using a web-based questionnaire. A total of 386 replies from the 10,318 distributed questionnaires were analyzed. Descriptive statistics were computed using SPSS (version 22) to summarize the demographic data. Inferential statistics such as the independent and chi-square test were used to achieve the study aims.ResultsMore than half of the respondents (54.4%) indicated that their levels of knowledge of COVID-19 were good. Most participants (72.5%) reported that scientific publications and international websites were the most reliable source of their knowledge concerning COVID-19. More than 46% stated they sometimes share their knowledge. The lack of time to share and organizational culture were the most important factors that could affect their knowledge sharing. Additionally, about 75% of participants shared knowledge about treatment.

High-Impact Educational Practices (HIEPs) in Educational Media: Towards a Proposed Vision for the Sustainability of Egyptian Specifiic Education

Abstract Sustainable education and teaching excellence in Egypt remain significant challenges due to the persistent reliance on conventional and theoretical curricula, highlighting the dire importance of innovative practices for educators. Specific education should be encouraged at higher education levels, particularly in educational media. However, its adoption remains challenging due to unclear objectives and ineffective practices. High-impact educational practices (HIEPs) would provide an incentive for improved learning among the students. Thus, the current study focuses on the high impact of educational practices in exploring the importance of HIEPs in higher education in general and the educational media for specific education at Mansoura University in particular. Fifty faculty members in the field of educational media from specific educational colleges across various Egyptian universities participated in the survey. The study identifies the government’s focus on quantity over quality, poor teaching standards, and social inequalities as critical factors necessitating the implementation of HIEPs. In turn, all these practices add to deriving improved engagement, delivery of transferable and elementary skills, or synthesizing learning from related courses. The study concluded that it is important for the Department of Educational Media and its sub-specialties, including Drama, Educational Theatre, Radio, Television, and Educational Journalism, to integrate HIEPs and foster innovative practices in theatre education, in light of the 21st-century skills, skills gaps, ICT implementation, and support of teachers to increase the sustainability, particularly in educational media.

Factors influencing stress and resilience among Egyptian medical students: a multi-centric cross-sectional study

BackgroundPsychological stress is a common psychological comorbidity among medical students and worsens their quality of life. Psychological resilience is thought to have a protective role against stress. However, evidence regarding the prevalence of stress and resilience alongside their associated factors is scarce, especially in the Middle East. This is the first multicenter, cross-sectional study to investigate resilience and stress among Egyptian medical students.MethodsThe current cross-sectional study was conducted on 2465 university students in seven public universities in Egypt. The universities were selected using the simple randomization method. The data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire consisting of four parts: demographic data, socioeconomic tool represented in the Family Affluence Scale (FAS), the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10), and the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS). Data was analyzed in SPSS version 26 software.ResultsThe majority of the students were stressed (86.5%), most of whom had severe stress (48.9%). Most of the students had low resilience (49.9%), while only 3.2% had high resilience. In the logistic regression analysis, being a female, living alone, spending long hours on social media, and thinking of suicide or leaving medicine were associated with being stressed and having low resilience. Medical students with low resilience were significantly more liable to stress [Adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 3.667, confidence interval (CI): 2.709–4.965, P = 0.000], and vice versa [AOR = 3.709, CI: 2.746–5.009, P = 0.000]. Interestingly, high socioeconomic status showed a significant association with high resilience (P = 0.004); nonetheless, it was not associated with stress (P = 0.993). Academic grades were not associated with both the level of stress and resilience. Aging, being in clinical or academic stages, smoking, having a chronic disease, and being financially-supported are neither associated with stress nor resilience.ConclusionsThe present study revealed that Egyptian medical students had low resilience and high stress, with a significant relationship between both of them. Further investigations via longitudinal study design to understand the resilience-stress relationship are recommended. Developing and implementing resilience-improving strategies in medical schools is highly recommended to decrease the prevalence of stress and its subsequent burdens.

Islamic Universities in Egypt and Indonesia as Tools of Liberal Governance: How States Use them to Canonize Reformed Versions of Islam

Abstract This article examines how liberal states regulate religion through a comparative study of government-run Islamic universities in Egypt and Indonesia. Building on recent historical scholarship, it is argued that, contrary to conventional views, liberal states have frequently endorsed government intervention in religious life – including “authoritarian” repression of disfavored religious beliefs and practices. Liberal interventionist policies were first developed in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, where they were applied most intensely to Catholics. The policies were then brought to the Muslim world during the colonial era, and have been maintained by liberal post-colonial Muslim states like Egypt and Indonesia. It is argued that such Muslim states utilize heavy government intervention to promote liberal ideals of “civilizational progress” (i.e., development) and “religiously inclusive nationalism”. Intervention is carried out, in large part, through state-run systems of religious education, which include Islamic universities. Such universities canonize reformed “progressive” “nationalist” versions of Islam, while simultaneously decanonizing “fanatic” versions of Islam which oppose civilizational progress and religiously inclusive nationalism. It is shown that the canonization process involves ascribing unique importance to particular languages, places, persons, and texts associated with the Islamic tradition.

Overcoming Fractures of Cross-Cultural Understanding: Modern Chinese Knowledge Production on the Arab World

Despite the long history of Chinese-Arab interactions since the seventh century, modern Chinese scholarship on the Arab world has a much shorter story. The global historical context that led to such a situation is the Western dominance in knowledge production. Most Chinese scholars research on issues related to the West and/or China-Western interactions. Only a small proportion of researchers cast their eyes on the “other East”—the Arab world. Consequently, Arab/Arabic studies occupies a marginal space in Chinese academies. In addition, although Edward Said had fiercely argued more than forty years ago in Orientalism that subtle but persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arab-Islamic peoples and their culture perpetrates Western misunderstanding about the region, such biased representations were sometimes uncritically transferred by Chinese scholars when they were acquiring knowledge about the region via translations of Orientalist accounts written in English. Another major obstacle is the inherent linguistic and orthographic difficulties involved. Although some researchers have made great endeavors to overcome such challenges, most publish only in Chinese. As a result, their findings are not widely known. This article, therefore, scrutinizes and contextualizes modern Chinese scholarship on the Arab world in order to introduce it to a wider international audience, especially for those who are keenly observing the increasing Chinese-Arab engagements in the twenty-first century. In addition to providing synoptic overviews of major institutions, scholars, and their representative works, the article also critically analyzes the historical contexts that led to the initial formation, subsequent divergent developments in Chinese-language academies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the present challenges of the respective state of the fields. I argue that due to bigger population, larger geographical size, and more government funding, Arab/Arabic studies in mainland China is more developed than that in Taiwan, though scholars based on the mainland are facing more pressure on censorship and self-censorship. Both fields, however, were pioneered by the same group of Chinese Hui Muslim scholars who went to study at al-Azhar University in Egypt in the 1930s and the 1940s, not unlike cosmopolitan Muslims around the world at the time who traveled to Cairo for multiple and complex reasons. When they returned, institutionalizing Arab/Arabic-Islamic studies in Chinese academies became one of their most visible and long-lasting legacies. Contingencies in their lives, mainly job opportunities upon graduation, played an important role in their later bifurcated career trajectories. The process during which these Hui Azharites ceased to be “cosmopolitan Muslims” and instead became “Chinese Arabists” reflects an important transformation in Chinese-Arab interactions during the Cold War politics. Later generations of scholars developed systematic pedagogies on teaching Arabic to native Chinese speakers by publishing Arabic-Chinese dictionaries as well as textbooks and grammar books. Their role as cross-cultural intermediaries is significant and widely impactful. These little-known scholars deserve to be recognized for their intellectual pursuits.