مراجعة نقدية لنظام الساعات المعتمدة في الجامعات المصرية : هل من بديل؟
The study aimed to provide a "critical analytical review" of the literature that highlighted the features of the credit hours system, and monitored the negatives and criticisms that were directed against it, as evidenced by some American studies and reports issued by the official authorities, in addition to studies that dealt with the current situation of this system and the problems it suffers from in Egyptian universities. Accordingly, the second part of the study aimed to search for an "already approved" alternative in advanced education systems that addresses the flaws in the credit hours system, and to provide a proposed vision of how to adopt it and apply it in Egyptian university education. The study concluded that: The application of the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) as an alternative to the credit hours system, with the need for a set of prerequisites as guarantees of its success, is the best and most correct alternative. The study used the descriptive approach in monitoring and analyzing the benefits and advantages that encourage its application as an alternative to the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System by taking advantage of modern educational literature, proposing the prerequisites in the legislative field and educational policy, the organizational field, education, and infrastructure, perhaps the most prominent of which is: reconsidering some of the provisions of the current Universities Organization Law or deleting them in line with the application of the European points system, enhancing the independence of universities to enable them to choose the teaching system that suits them in the light of flexible controls, aligning the human cadres necessary for the application of ECTS in quantity and quality, and finally : restructuring programs and curricula, while allowing more space for the skill and practical aspects received by students against the knowledge aspects, and linking them to the requirements of the labor market and achieving sustainable development. (Published abstract)