The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) today released the English edition of its report titled “Screened Out: How Military Academy Requirements Discriminate Against Teachers”.
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4 Aug 2026
Read the full report here
“I applied, my papers were accepted, and I was given an exam date in December at the Central Agency for Organization and Administration. I traveled, took the exam, and thank God, when the results came out, I had passed. Then our names were announced in the directorates, and we were given a date for pedagogical training. They told us we would start work in the second term.
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