The Prime Minister of the National Unity Government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, held a meeting today, Tuesday, with the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Imran Al-Qayeb, the Minister of Technical Education, Khalaf Al-Sifaw, the head of the Faculty Syndicate and a number of its members, a number of the directors department at the Ministry of Finance, and the Director of the Oversight Department of the service sector of the Administrative Oversight Authority, and the Director General of the Administrative Centers and Development Authority, to discuss the reasons for the sit-in by faculty members at universities and higher institutes.
Dbeibeh stressed the need to pay attention to faculty members, provide all appropriate conditions to perform their duties, and address the conditions of teaching assistants in accordance with the laws regulating that. He pointed at the same time to the return of students to their classrooms, considering it a responsibility that falls on the government. He also called on faculty members to perform their educational mission, and the relevant ministries to address all comments received from the union.
The Prime Minister issued instructions to the Ministries of Finance, Higher Education, and Technical Education on the necessity of discussing the proposals submitted regarding the problems raised at the beginning of each academic year, and working to implement them in accordance with the approved and available financial allocations.
He emphasized the importance of allocating faculty members’ rights based on teaching hours through the implementation of a dedicated system, ensuring that the state recognizes the rightful entitlements of active faculty members. He deemed the indiscriminate and criterion-free distribution of teaching responsibilities to all faculty members as unjust to genuine university professors, emphasizing the illogical and legally questionable nature of such procedures.”
The Prime Minister issued directives to address the status of teaching assistants who meet legal criteria and are actively fulfilling their responsibilities. Furthermore, he mandated that universities and higher institutes take responsibility for determining the required numbers based on needs and compliance with legal conditions.
He additionally instructed the committee, led by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Education and formed by the Council of Ministers, to persist in overseeing the initiation of the scholarship program. The directive emphasized the implementation of the first phase in alignment with the committee’s recommendations, with special attention given to first-time recipients and repeaters, recognizing them as crucial segments in the process.