The People's Assembly approves a draft law that allows technical institutes to be used as production centers and discusses higher education issues

Damascus-SANA

The People's Assembly, in its session held today headed by Speaker Hammouda Sabbagh, approved the new draft law regulating the mechanism of taking technical institutes as production centers to replace Legislative Decree No. 39 of 2001 and it became a law.

The draft law allows technical institutes to manufacture and sell machines, tools, equipment and other products within their jurisdiction without affecting the implementation of the prescribed curricula. scholastic.

The net profits resulting from production, maintenance and service contracts in technical institutes are distributed according to the project by 50 percent as incentives and rewards for workers and supervisors of production and services work and students involved in production and by 50 percent for developing the production process such as purchasing machines, tools, tools, training and production requirements, while the surplus of profits goes to the following fiscal year.

According to the draft law, a bank account will be opened for each institute that carries out production, training, repairs and services and deposits the revenue generated by production centers, gifts and donations, and any revenue permitted by the laws and regulations in force. It is permissible by a decision of the competent minister to open halls to display and sell the products of practical training in the institutes.

The draft law also permits by a decision of the Minister of Finance and based on the proposal of the competent minister, to grant institutes participating in production an advance from the public treasury, with a maximum limit of one hundred million Syrian pounds, to be paid in cash in accordance with the laws and regulations in force.

A number of council members also raised issues related to the work of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, in which they demanded to accommodate a larger number of students in private universities and to allocate seats in them to the children of faculty members as a result of the comparison, to create a department for postgraduate studies in the Faculties of Law and Economics at Euphrates University, and to open new colleges for virtual and open education in Daraa, the university branch was staffed with administrators, and a university building was built in the governorate.

He called on the members to create a professional doctorate degree and provide possible facilities to increase the number of medical college students specializing in “anesthesia” and oblige them to work in public hospitals after graduation, due to the large shortage of anesthesiology cadres in most hospitals. ALBaath University.

In his response to the members’ interventions, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Bassam Ibrahim, explained that the educational situation, cadres and the number of seats in private universities are linked to academic academic accreditation rules and have not been deviated from to date, and there is no leniency in this matter, whether with private or public universities, indicating that the trade-off in This year, it will be central to achieving equal opportunities for students.

Minister Ibrahim indicated that the appointment of administrative cadres in the university branch in Daraa is linked to the central competition recently announced by the Ministry of Administrative Development, pointing out that there is great pressure in the number of patients in university hospitals, and this is dealt with according to the available capabilities, and no patient was rejected despite the lack of medicines in While other medical procedures such as surgeries, laboratory tests and radiography are available.

Minister Ibrahim pointed out that a committee was formed to study the creation of a professional doctorate and to determine the desired outputs and results of this degree, explaining that the issue of doctors’ migration is of interest to the Ministry and a specific strategy is being worked out to ensure the commitment of medical college graduates to work in public hospitals, but this will not be forced.

The session, which was attended by Minister of State for People's Assembly Affairs Abdullah Abdullah, was adjourned to 12 noon tomorrow, Tuesday.

Waseem El-Adawy and Louay Houssam

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