Computer Science Education in Egypt - EPIC FAIL

I am at my third year studying computer science at HTI (Higher Technological Institute) and I just have to say it's an Epic Fail, Let's go with the list of the reasons that make me say so:

• The university has no mail server.
• The Interface and Application for courses registration is so lame that it reminds me of windows 3.11.
• The content is so out-dated that we study from books as old as 1997.
• There's no difference between programming courses. OOP is the same as structured programming.
• We use lame compilers cause of the lack of professors' ability to adapt to newer versions and integrate the libraries they need into them.
• A professor telling me that encapsulation in networks is like putting something in a bag and that a packet is smaller than a frame !!!
• Studying from a copied presentation that's so out-dated that the last version of windows is NT in it.
• When Professors consider making a mail server to be an excellent FYP.
• When assistant professors don't remember the course and one of them explains the word "Transformation" as "Transportation"
• A library filled with out-dated books, Lame PCs and slow-ass internet connection is called a Research Facility.
• A professor told me that Networks "Arrived" to the US in 1997.
• An assistant professor can't ping 127.0.0.1
• All the staff have no coding abilities.
• When I am studying Network Operating Systems and I have to memorize features of Windows NT !!
• When I tell the Head of Department that syllabuses need to be changed cause of being out-dated and too n00by and he answers me that they can't do anything "It's the ministry of education's responsibility".
• When a person holding a PHD tells me that IEEE is an abbreviation for (International Electrical Energy Electronics) and his justification for that is that Electrical Engineers work in Energy !!

That's all that I have in mind for the moment but there's much more.


By : Mohammed Attia