To start with, we should pay tribute to the positive step taken by the UAE University, by holding a press conference for the Acting Rector of the University yesterday, in which he spoke to reporters, and he answered many of their questions and community questions about the "transformation" plans that the university intends to implement, it is true that the step was somewhat late But "to come late is better than not to come," as the saying goes!

What is striking about the statements of the Acting Director during the conference, is this wonderful “resonant” sentence that he said about what was raised about the criteria for admission to the university, where he stressed that the “approach of development - (supported by data) - followed by the university, which is based on a recent comparative study, indicates That despite the fact that the minimum minimum score for the total of high school grades was raised from 75% to 80%, starting from the academic year 2019-2020, this did not negatively affect the number of students admitted (directly accepted) at the university, estimated at 1146 students, compared to 1201 Male and female students in the previous academic year 2018-2019 ».

Unfortunately, it appears that the Acting President of the University did not notice, intentionally or unintentionally - I cannot assert - that he is providing incomplete information and numbers, or rather "amputated" about the numbers of students admitted to the university for the past two years, and if the matter is confused, there is nothing wrong, he can Re-checking the numbers again, and then announcing the correct numbers, but if the issue is intended, then this clearly means that there is a deliberate misleading of the public opinion, and that there is an academic violation, the basis of academic work is based on the scientific honesty in the transfer and subtraction, and the partial eradication of numbers is Kamel avoids this approach without a doubt.

And the Acting Director of the UAE University will allow me to re-publish the numbers of students admitted to the university, and based on a "comparative study" that I conducted, and any interested person can easily do it through the search engine "Google", which can never lie, "supported by data." The complete and not amputated numbers of the "total" students, as the statistics published on the university's website and in all local newspaper sites indicate that the number of students admitted to the UAE University (2017-2018) reached 5109, and on Monday, August 13 2018, Emirates University published a news saying, "It welcomed its 3 new students 715 male and female students for the new academic year 2018-2019 », and with a simple calculation that never requires the use of the calculator, we will find that the number decreased to 1394 male and female students, all of whom did not find a place for them in the Emirates University after the conditions for admission to the university changed!

For information and clarification, the university was changing the conditions for admission, and based on those changes two categories were created: the first category is for students who are directly admitted to the university, and they have a minimum of 80% in high school, and the second category is for conditional admission, for students whose rates are in the language English between 1100 and 1250, in the “IMSAT” test, or 5 to 5.5 in the IELTS. These students undergo an intensive educational program in English, mathematics and Arabic, and after completing this program and upgrading to the level of direct admission, they enroll in the university, so the number of students admitted, Who y The acting director hated it, related to direct acceptance, and therefore I put it in the front of the article in parentheses, and we are talking about the total number, and between this and that difference indicates the decrease in the numbers of admitted people significantly!

We are not in an argument with officials at the university, but what we ask of them is to pay attention to the children of the UAE who have a secondary school, they are our children and our brothers, and their children and brothers, and the complexity of matters for not accepting them in the university is unpalatable and has no justification!

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