The Pharmacists' Syndicate has announced that it will no longer accept students with lower grades than their colleagues into the syndicate.
The syndicate’s general assembly meeting on 28 December 2013 determined that students who graduate from high school with grades that are more than five percentage points below peers who are accepted at governmental universities will not be registered at the syndicate. .
A warning to that effect was issued to the Higher Education Ministry, the Supreme Council of Universities and the privately-owned Deraya University in Minya.
Students who graduated from private pharmacology colleges after 3 January 2013 will also be rejected.
The syndicate has stressed that universities should conform to this decision and disclaims any liability with regards to violations by the universities on this issue.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
