Head of the “Dignity Movement” MP Faisal Karami submitted, in the absence of cabinet sessions, a proposal for a repetitive accelerated law allowing for one time only contracting full-time contracts with hourly contracting professors according to the needs of the Lebanese University and its laws. Owners of the Lebanese University.
Karami had confirmed his continuation to “stand by the contracting professors at the Lebanese University and their rightful demand for a full-time job, and in the right confrontation, especially in the absence of government sessions and the inability to release them and for fear of losing the university year to students,” considering that “their justice through emptying and confirming them is a right.” They have a right related to the protection of the National University, and therefore it is a right related to educational security and national security, as was previously mentioned in the commentary on the strike of contracting professors,” noting that “Lebanon is based mainly on three sectors, banking, health and education, and unfortunately the banking and health sectors are at their worst. The education sector and its Deanship of the Lebanese University remain the only one that is resilient, so everyone must support this steadfastness for the benefit of approximately 85,000 students and the interest of the professors.
The reasons for this proposal stated, “As it is customary in the Lebanese University for each unit of its faculties to submit a proposal to empty the hourly contracted professor and who meet the required academic and legal conditions to the University Council, which in turn submits it to the Minister of Education and Higher Education to be presented to the Council of Ministers. To issue a decree releasing contracted professors, and
since the approval of the last full-time file at the Lebanese University took place in 2014 and hundreds of university professors have since retired, leaving a huge vacancy covered by contract professors who now constitute nearly 80 percent of the university’s teaching staff, in a clear violation To the university organizing laws that prevent this percentage from exceeding 20 percent.
And since contracting professors do not have the lowest decent living conditions, as they have to wait for two years to receive small sums, and they do not enjoy any health or social benefits such as hospitalization allowances, transportation and education grants, which leads to the dispersal of their efforts.
And since the failure to discharge contracted professors in light of the stifling economic crisis leads them to leave the Lebanese University and join private universities or emigrate outside Lebanon, which deprives the National University of its young cadres and distinguished brains.
Since all of the above reflects emphasizing harm to the interests of more than 85,000 students in the various faculties of the university and deprives them of the quality education that the national university must provide for its children, which constitutes a threat to the national educational security in Lebanon.
Source: National News Agency