Talk:German University in Cairo

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Please do NOT remove the dispute tags before discussing this article's neutrality. I added The critics section on this page and hope you do not remove it before giving reasons. 41.235.174.148 (talk) 17:47, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Ok. For the articles' neutrality; what makes you think that the article is bias, I mean is there a specific part or just the whole article...and why?

As for the "Critics" section, you need to cite the information for it to stay on the page. Regards, Abdallah (talk) 20:19, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

I got this information first hand when there was some members of the german press trying to interview a couple of students without luck due to lack of language skills of these students. i don't mind removing this information, i just wanted to excite a dialogue between people who try to add other facts rather than this university is da BOMB. if you know what i mean.

i don't care anyway, edit it as you like. 41.235.176.142 (talk) 20:50, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

When you say due to lack of language skills, are you talking about German or English (though you wrote English in the article)...cause there is no way that the GUCians were not able to speak English.

I don't mean anything, just that we have hard English courses. Plus all our courses are taught in English, so for you to get anything in our courses you have to understand English. Other than that, 50% of lecturers are of German nationally...they don't speak Arabic (and the high failure are because of the hard courses not because students don't know English).

I am really ok, with your idea of contributions. This is an encyclopedia and all points of views should be discussed.

But if you don't mind me asking, when you say "I got this information first hand when there...", how and where? And if this information was published in anyway, could you tell me where to get it, in order to improve and cite this section in the article? Abdallah (talk) 12:05, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Personally I don't think that students have a hard time passing these 'hard' english courses. it's a shame when you sit in an RPW class where there are some students who respond in arabic because they don't know better. And about this press thing I didn't say the whole truth, I did not come in contact with the people from the german press, there was one day where people were talking about them being around and many of them said that it went bad. And reading about it in the German version of this article made this story stronger.

I am a student at this university and believe me it is not in my interest to ruin its reputation, but acting like it's flawless raises more doubts than you can imagine. I hope you get my point.

I promise i will look for citations but until then you can add a "citation needed" flag. 41.235.173.138 (talk) 13:38, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Already did. About the "hard English courses", I though you though like we (not knowing ur a GUCian urself) didnt take English courses or something. You know, its not a university's place to teach us how to speak English, we are taught how to use our English (that we already know). The fact that people dont know English is not the GUC's fault. And nobody said it was flawless...but I dont think the English thing is the problem. Abdallah (talk) 15:35, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

OK, I don't think that the "strike" is relevant to the article about the university. To be honest I don't think the whole Critics section is, I mean it is ok for a blog or something but not on the university's article. Abdallah (talk) 20:50, 13 April 2008 (UTC)