After the contract professors at the Lebanese University announced a strike on the eighth of this month, they postponed this escalation to the fifteenth, in order to allow the approval of their full-time employment file, in light of official promises to achieve progress on this issue.
However, what is surprising is that the Council of Ministers will hold a morning session tomorrow, Thursday, to discuss the army’s report, in addition to thirty-seven other items on the agenda. Nevertheless, the file of full-time employment for contract professors at the Lebanese University is once again absent from this agenda, even though the Council had previously returned it to the Minister of Education for further review and clarification.
Information related to the file indicates that it has become almost complete and is awaiting presentation to the Council of Ministers, but the timing of its inclusion on the agenda still depends on making some minor adjustments to it.
In contrast, the Contract Professors Committee does not agree with this information. The spokesman for the committee, Dr. Muhammad Shokr, confirms in an interview to , that the file has not been completed yet and has not been sent to the Council of Ministers, but is still under review by the University Council, consisting of the Minister of Education and the President of the Lebanese University, to finalize it, including some “touch-ups” related to the issue of sectarian balance.
In this context, Shokr points out that the meeting that brought together the President of the Lebanese University, Dr. Bassam Badran, with the Minister of Finance, Yassine Jaber, was very fruitful, as the latter expressed his full readiness to cooperate in order to serve the interest and stability of the Lebanese University.
Shokr expects that the final picture of the file’s path will become clear during the meeting scheduled to be held on Friday between Dr. Badran and the Contract Professors Committee, where the President of the University will brief the committee on the latest developments and explain the main challenges he is working to solve, as professors await the outcome of matters before the announced strike date.
