The upper hierarchy is responsible for the protected characteristics listed below:

Age:

Misr University for Science and Technology is devoted to providing chances to all employees and students, regardless of age, who come to the University. Except where genuinely warranted, age will not be a barrier to attaining work rights and benefits or enrolling in courses.

Disability:

Misr University for Science and Technology is devoted to disability equality and ensuring that all staff, students, and visitors have a positive experience of work, learning, teaching, and research environment.

Race:

The university is totally committed to fostering racial equality and creating a racial-free work, learning, research, and teaching environment. We recognize that education is vital for equality and that we can play a critical role in ensuring that Egypt is free of racial discrimination.

 Gender:

Misr University for Science and Technology is dedicated to gender equality and attempts to eliminate sex discrimination in its workplace, learning, teaching, and research environments.  Sex equality refers to equal and fair treatment of men and women.

To achieve this goal, the University President established the Equal Opportunities and Gender Equality Unit that has a committee to achieve sex equality in the university.

 Religion:

Misr University for Science and Technology supports and embraces the variety of its staff, students, and visitors, and strives to provide an environment in which cultural and religious views are respected.

The university policy is that all staff and students do business honestly and without the use of corrupt practices or acts of bribery to gain an unfair advantage.

What are Bribery and Corruption?

Bribery:

Bribery is defined as the offering, promising, demanding, or accepting of a benefit as a tempt for an illegal, unethical, breach of trust, or inappropriate fulfilment of a contract.

Corruption:

Corruption is defined as the use of public position or power for personal benefit, or the use of private power in relation to business outside of government.

Procedure:

A complaint is submitted to the Equal Opportunities and Gender Equality Unit via the unit office or via e-mail to the unit within the institution.

– A meeting of the unit committee is conducted to discuss and investigate complaints.

– The complaint will be directed to the university competent authorities.

In the case of staff, the complaint shall be directed to the Secretary-General of the university on the recommendation of the unit committee to make the appropriate decision and direct it to the competent department.

In the case of university students and faculty members, the complaint shall be directed to the university on the recommendation of the unit committee to make the appropriate decision and direct the complaint to the competent department such as legal affairs or the University Supreme Disciplinary Board.

– Follow-up the findings and investigations related to complaints brought to the Unit.

Misr University for Science and Technology is dedicated to promote an atmosphere where its faculty, students, administrators, and staff members can feel safe, relying on others to be trustworthy, and show respect to one another as fellow human beings. In fact, respect one another among instructors, students, staff, and administrators is a crucial component of the educational process, and it must be preserved at all costs.

This policy outlines the university procedures for handling complaints of discrimination and harassment against faculty, students, administrators, and staff that are based on a protected feature as defined in this policy.

Procedure:

A complaint is submitted to the Equal Opportunities and Gender Equality Unit via the unit office or via e-mail to the unit within the institution.

– A meeting of the unit committee is conducted to discuss and investigate complaints.

– The complaint will be directed to the university competent authorities.

In the case of staff, the complaint shall be directed to the Secretary-General of the university on the recommendation of the unit committee to make the appropriate decision and direct it to the competent department.

In the case of university students and faculty members, the complaint shall be directed to the university on the recommendation of the unit committee to make the appropriate decision and direct the complaint to the competent department such as legal affairs or the University Supreme Disciplinary Board.

– Follow-up the findings and investigations related to complaints brought to the Unit.

Confidentiality:

The university will make every effort to ensure confidentiality to the greatest extent possible, in accordance with the relevant regulations and the requirement to handle issues effectively and fairly to protect the university community. All parties participating in the proceedings will be aware of the importance of discretion and confidentiality.

– The unit complaints procedure demonstrates our dedication to value complaints. It aims to address complaints as close to the point of service delivery as feasible, and to undertake full, unbiased, and fair investigations of complaints so that, where appropriate, we can make decisions based on the evidences facts of the case.

Our Internal Complaint Management System:

A complaint is submitted to the Equal Opportunities and Gender Equality Unit via the unit office or via e-mail to the unit within the institution.

– A meeting of the unit committee is conducted to discuss and investigate complaints.

– The complaint will be directed to the university competent authorities.

In the case of staff, the complaint shall be directed to the Secretary-General of the university on the recommendation of the unit committee to make the appropriate decision and direct it to the competent department.

In the case of university students and faculty members, the complaint shall be directed to the university on the recommendation of the unit committee to make the appropriate decision and direct the complaint to the competent department such as legal affairs or the University Supreme Disciplinary Board.

– Follow-up the findings and investigations related to complaints brought to the Unit.

How we receive complaints:

We can receive direct complaints through the unit office or through our e-mail address eoge@must.edu.eg  to discuss them with the unit committee.

•  Ethical Compliance

The Equal Opportunities Unit complies with all regulations and ethical laws of Misr University of Science and Technology and brings together its students, teaching staff and staff.

Procedures:

Report any inappropriate behavior. If you suspect that a behavior is illegal, unethical, or otherwise disturbing, you should notify your supervisor. If your supervisor is involved in questionable behavior, you should discuss it with the higher level of authority. You may also report the behavior to the university Equal Opportunities and Gender Equality Unit through e-mail at: eoge@must.edu.eg or through the unit office.