Sit-in of part-time lecturers at LU in front of the Education Ministry, March 5, 2024. (Credit: Anne-Marie el-Hage/L’Orient-Le Jour)
For the first time since 2014, the issue of contract professors at the Lebanese University (LU) was raised during the Cabinet meeting on Friday, when 1,690 contract professors were granted the status of full-time employees in four batches under specific conditions.An informed source said that this number “exceeds the needs” of the country’s only public university “by around 400,” in an economic context that has been fragile since the 2019 crisis.But since “considerations of sectarian balances” often have the final say in the civil service, this step was approved at the expense of reform and austerity requirements. Other news on LU Fraud at LU law faculty: Director, secretary general, journalist referred to criminal court “The appointment of these 400 Christian, Sunni and Druze professors is intended to balance the excess of Shiite...
For the first time since 2014, the issue of contract professors at the Lebanese University (LU) was raised during the Cabinet meeting on Friday, when 1,690 contract professors were granted the status of full-time employees in four batches under specific conditions.An informed source said that this number “exceeds the needs” of the country’s only public university “by around 400,” in an economic context that has been fragile since the 2019 crisis.But since “considerations of sectarian balances” often have the final say in the civil service, this step was approved at the expense of reform and austerity requirements. Other news on LU Fraud at LU law faculty: Director, secretary general, journalist referred to criminal court “The appointment of these 400 Christian, Sunni and Druze professors is intended to balance the...
