Syrian Arab Republic, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the legislation and laws area of mohe.gov.sy: the circulars section, and pages 2 to 5 of the decisions listing, as at 20 August 2026
Source ID
SRC-294
Citation
Syrian Arab Republic, Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the legislation and laws area of mohe.gov.sy: the circulars section, and pages 2 to 5 of the decisions listing, as at 20 August 2026
URL or path
research/SRC-294_mohe/; https://mohe.gov.sy/ar/legislation-laws/circulars; https://mohe.gov.sy/ar/legislation-laws/decisions?page=2 through page=5
Retrieved 20 August 2026, five pages, all HTTP 200, 49,434 to 61,549 bytes each. Decision and circular TITLES read in full for every item; the linked full texts were NOT opened. research/ is not committed ; 11 September 2026, 74 decision detail pages (the 73 listed plus 106) and 2 circular pages, 72 attachments, 85 page images, all read; 12 September 2026, listings refetched and identical.
Claims
CH7 the degree-equivalence processing-time absence, and its scope
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
GATE ITEM E6, AND IT LIFTS THE BAR SRC-268 IMPOSED. SRC-268 recorded that pages 2 to 5 of the decisions listing and the circulars section had not been searched, and therefore that prose MAY NOT SAY Syria publishes no processing time for degree equivalence. BOTH SECTIONS ARE NOW SEARCHED. THE HOST WAS REACHABLE THIS TIME, WHICH CORRECTS AN EARLIER RECORD. SRC-268 notes that mohe.gov.sy resolved publicly but failed from this machine. On 20 August 2026 https://mohe.gov.sy/ and https://www.mohe.gov.sy/ both returned 200; only the plain http:// form failed. Cloudflare DoH confirms A record 185.216.133.50. So the earlier failure was the scheme, not the site. WHAT WAS SEARCHED AND WHAT WAS FOUND. Circulars: TWO items only, one directing state universities and higher institutes not to withhold the marks of students who have not paid 2024/2025 fees, one a list of recognised Syrian universities and institutes. Decisions pages 2 to 5: FORTY-FIVE decisions, twelve, twelve, twelve and nine. NO DECISION AND NO CIRCULAR SETS A PROCESSING TIME, A SERVICE STANDARD OR A DEADLINE FOR DEGREE EQUIVALENCE. THE LIMIT OF THIS SEARCH, AND IT IS THE REASON THE BAR LIFTS ONLY PART OF THE WAY: TITLES WERE READ, NOT FULL TEXTS. Each item links to a full decision behind an 'read more' link and none of those was opened. A time limit could sit inside a decision whose title does not mention it. So WHAT PROSE MAY NOW SAY is that no processing time appears in the titles of any of the 57 decisions and 2 circulars the ministry publishes in its legislation area, nor on the equivalence pages, nor in the three requirement sheets. WHAT PROSE MAY STILL NOT SAY is that no such time exists in Syrian law. FOUR DECISIONS FOUND THAT BEAR ON THE CHAPTER AND WERE NOT BEING LOOKED FOR. DECISION 421 of 14 June 2026 EXEMPTS holders of master's and doctoral degrees from theoretical faculties in the years 2011 to 2025 from the RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT for equivalence of their degrees. That is a dated instrument easing equivalence for exactly the diaspora cohort the chapter discusses, and the chapter currently says nothing about it. DECISION 496 of 14 June 2026 deems certificates from Gaziantep University in Aleppo and the Jarablus higher vocational institutes equivalent to those of comparable Syrian faculties. DECISION 198 of 18 January 2026 allows students returning to Syria who meet the transfer conditions to continue transfer procedures even if they were out of study the previous year. DECISION 319 of 22 May 2025 RETURNS ALL TEACHING HOSPITALS academically, administratively and financially TO THE MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION. THAT BEARS DIRECTLY ON THE HEALTH WORKFORCE PERIMETER: SRC-265's population is public hospitals affiliated to the Ministry of Health AND the Ministry of Higher Education, and this decision changes which ministry runs the teaching hospitals from that date. Any statement about who employs Syrian hospital staff must be dated against it. AQ-73 B6, 11 and 12 SEPTEMBER 2026: THE FULL TEXTS ARE NOW OPENED AND THE BAR THIS ROW LEFT IS LIFTED AS FAR AS THE MINISTRY'S PUBLICATIONS GO. Every decision and circular on the 20 August listing was fetched at its detail page on 11 September (HTTP 200 throughout) and its body image or PDF saved and read at the page (85 page images), and re-read on 12 September; the seventeen decisions added since 20 August were read too. Result: NO DECISION AND NO CIRCULAR SETS A PERIOD FOR DECIDING AN EQUIVALENCE APPLICATION, A DEADLINE ON THE EQUIVALENCE COMMITTEE OR DIRECTORATE, OR A SERVICE STANDARD. Control: the equivalence vocabulary is on the face of eight decisions read (148 of 16/3/2026 on the equivalence committee's proposal; 421 and 496 of 14/6/2026; 662 of 14/6/2026; 668 of 14/6/2026; 727, 728, 729 of 2/8/2026), and the same series sets a ten-day decision period for student transfer (decision 365 of 17/8/2025 Article 15(c): البت فيها خلال عشرة أيام على الأكثر) and for transfer and course equivalence from non-Syrian universities (decision 319 of 17/8/2025 Article 14). What could not be opened: decision 528 (page 100) is published as a title only and is restated by decision 749 of 2/8/2026, read; decision 418 (page 106) and circular 41 were delisted between 20 August and 7 September, their pages are empty templates and the Internet Archive holds no capture of either. The twelve items of page 1 on 20 August are identified from the ministry's upload stamps (14 July to 18 August 2026), not from a saved page. WHAT PROSE MAY NOW SAY: no processing time appears in the full text of any decision or circular the ministry publishes in its legislation area that could be opened, fifty-six of the fifty-nine, nor in the seventeen added since. WHAT IT STILL MAY NOT SAY: that no such period exists in Syrian law, because Law 19 of 2001 (Article 3), decision 1/و of 4/1/2009 and Council decisions 276 and 278 of 1/3/2026, all cited in the decisions read, are not published on the site and were not opened. Status to READ. Files: research/AQ73_B6_equivalence_decisions/ (11 and 12 September), superseding research/SRC-AQ73_b6_mohe_texts/ (7 September, text only, titles only). [applied from audits/reports/AQ73_B6_equivalence_decisions_2026-09-11.md, 12 September 2026]