Egyptian university scandal: They graduated dentists and trained with "buffalo teeth", and the court orders their re-teaching!
In a strange incident in the history of Egyptian education, the Supreme Administrative Court issued a final judicial ruling not to appeal the decision of the Administrative Court in Alexandria against the Faculty of Dentistry at Damanhour University.
The decision of the administrative judiciary in Alexandria had ruled the distribution of students in the first and second batches in 2015, numbering 320 students, to the corresponding dental faculties in Egyptian universities.
According to "Sky News Arabia", it had been proven to the court that the Faculty of Dentistry at Damanhour University had started the study without providing the necessary laboratories and equipment for the educational process, which it described as "an obscene harm to the students' future that must be removed."
The court ordered the Supreme Council of Universities to distribute students to different universities.
It also obligated him to “distribute each student to the university nearest to their place of residence, which is the universities of Alexandria, Tanta, Kafr El-Sheikh and Mansoura, in application of the fundamentalist rule that the most severe harm is removed with the least harm, without prejudice to the legal positions these students acquired in passing the exams prior to the issuance of the judgment.” .
The court ruled that these students should be given intensive theoretical and practical study programs to compensate for the missed academic curricula, even though they had graduated as doctors.
The students of the two batches of the Faculty of Dentistry at Damanhour University stood and told Judge Mohamed Abdel-Wahab Khafagy: "There are no labs in the college, no equipment, and they trained us on buffalo teeth."
Judge Khafagy asked the students before the present about the university, saying: “Did the college start studying without providing any laboratories so far?” The students said: “The situation is catastrophic and the college received us in two batches without being equipped with laboratories like other dental colleges in other Egyptian universities.”
The judge asked them: "Is there no training for you in your practical studies?" The students answered and said, "They were training us in the College of Veterinary Medicine on buffalo teeth."
Which surprised Judge Khafaji to repeat the question again, and 320 students answered in one vote that the training on buffalo teeth was correct.
The judge asked them: Do you have other requests?
The students said, "Our stay in that college is harmful to our future and the general health of citizens, because we are not trained in human dental laboratories, and we ask for justice."
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