Visit of a delegation from the Supreme Council of Universities and the Ministry of Communications to Beni Suef University
On Sunday 18/02/2018, the University of Beni Suef, headed by Prof. Dr. Mansour Hassan, received a delegation from the Supreme Council of Universities, including Dr. Ibrahim Fathy, Director of the Center of Electronic and Knowledge Services, Prof. Dr. Rami Iskandar, E-Learning Consultant, Dr. Mohammed Gadallah, Digital Library Consultant and Dr. Osama Sayed, Director of the Bank of Laboratories and the Acting consultant of Information Technology Training Center. The delegation also included a group of engineers from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, including Dr. Ayman Helmi and Eng. Kamal Siddiq. At the beginning, the Rector welcomed the guests and discussed many ways of cooperation that benefit the university and put it on the map of digital transformation. He also listened to a detailed explanation of the complaints and electronic records programs for the faculty members, which the Supreme Council gave to Beni Suef University due to its prominent role in enabling information technology . Dr.Ibrahim Fathy thanked the university president for his full support of the IT teams in the university projects, he also thanked the Executive Director of Information at the university and the directors of IT development projects at the university for the efforts exerted to transform Beni Suef University into an electronic one.
Dr. Karim Kamal, Director of the Project Management Unit and the Executive Director of Information at the University, reviewed the achievements made in the field of information technology at Beni Suef University since 1-11-2017:
- Activating the mechanization of reservation and delivery of meals in university cities using bar code devices.
- Mechanization of appointments' reservation to meet the University President and it will be circulated to the rest of the main offices.
- Getting rank No. 1701 in the Spanish classification of universities (webometrics) for the first time in the history of the University of Beni Suef.
- Appointing a director and a deputy for each IT project at the university, from the faculty of computers and information for the first time in the history of Beni Suef University.
In the belief of the importance of the role of information technology, the Council of the university approved the inclusion of the following positions in the main composition of the Council:
Executive Director of Information -> Member of the University Council
Director of Management Information Systems (mis) -> Member of the Board of Education and Students
E-Learning Manager -> Member of the Board of Education and Students
Director of Digital Library -> Member of the Council of Graduate Studies
Managers of the Information Technology Services Unit at Colleges -> Members of the Boards of their Colleges
The delegation visited the information technology building at the university and praised the work system and the distribution of tasks efficiently to the various work teams