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University was used to strengthen the Gaddafi regime, but is now preparing for the possibility of being normal

one seems to mind that term is from the end of this year in Tripoli University. Not every summer vacation, after all, that records the triumph of a revolution, and there are problems to be solved - at least not the large number of young men armed with machine guns to school - before students begin to go beyond the "low Gaddafi" and "slogans free Libya."

personal contribution and prepare for a new freshers week with a difference. "In these circumstances, I think we can be forgiven if this term is a little late," said Khalifa manager Shakra. "Things change so quickly."

For the first time in 42 years, the university has the opportunity to be a normal academic institution. "So far we have taken the form of a university, but not work," said Sami Khaskusha, a political scientist. "We feed the young away. [Muammar] Gaddafi just use this place to promote his cult personality and strengthen the regime. He has done nothing to Libyan society. "

Tajouri, doing a master's degree in international law, wants a better education, cleaner and administration, in particular freedom. His ambition - something unthinkable a few months ago - specializes in human rights. "The Gaddafi regime was based on ignorance," he said. "They were the enemies of education and students."

signs of change are everywhere. Ultimately the university was named al-Fateh again ("The Conqueror") after 1969, Gaddafi revolution. Standards panels now claims revolutionary committees were abolished. Map of Libya have been modified to delete the word "Libyan" - the late "state of the masses", chaired by the "brother leader", now a fugitive. The green flags wherever they went.

Faisal, Belfast formed a gynecologist who helped coordinate the preparations for the illegal removal of Tripoli, was named interim president in place of the old regime in search of arrival . "There is a new spirit at the university and in Libyan society," he says, "but I fear that the expectations are very high."

Desiring to quickly demonstrate tangible benefits, which plans to provide free transportation to and from campus. And the new independent student union has been given computers and other equipment seized by the revolutionary committees, whose members are low or are in prison.

The campus is pretty nice, but bad bad. It is also surprisingly relaxed: couples - many women wearing headscarves - walking hand in hand through the leafy passages that provide shelter against the scorching heat

But the facilities and academic standards, the staff said, an urgent need to improve. Curriculum reform is a big problem if the interim government - the National Transitional Council - has already rejected mandatory sense, as the "universal theory" of Kadhafi and "studies" Green Paper - a specialty from the University of Tarhouna south Tripoli