KT News: Three students died today and 57 were injured as fire swept through Suli University’s main student accommodation building. Initially a spokesman for the ministry of education told the media that the accommodation had passed health and safety checks and that he thought the fire must have been started deliberately. However, Halwlati reports that the cause…
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Category Archives: Education
KRG higher education has the ‘lowest standards’
KT Comment: Research conducted by assistant professor Dr Sleman Jaffar Mohamed at the University of Erbil sheds critical light on the standard of higher education provided by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Mohammed has completed a thesis on the “evaluation of the standard of higher education in the KRG “ and concluded that, using international…
Learning from teaching in Kurdistan
By Ashna Shareff: Perhaps education teaches many things, but not all educations teach everything. A few days ago, with three of my teammates, I was teaching 20 or so girls from Salahdeen university software programs and multimedia. The workshop was basically to empower young girls from Kurdistan, to teach them how to use different programs…
Please scrap qualifications that have no value
By Mufid Abdulla: Recently in the city of Sulaymani, 9,000 students applied for unemployment benefit because they could not get jobs. Young people all over Kurdistan face a daunting labor market and university qualifications are critically important to their job prospects. However, Kurdistan’s education system has ignored labor market realities and is failing in its…
First time in history of the invisible nation: Iraqi Kurdistan autism centre nominated for UN award
By Laween Atroshi: Throughout history Kurds have been forgotten and stigmatized as having a record of unemployment, lack of human rights and primitive education. To tackle this misperception and gain international credibility for our Kurdish professionals I feel we have an ethical and moral duty to represent Kurdistan on different platforms. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend…
An Independent Student Union can be found in Kurdistan – UKHSU as an example
By Bewar Abdulla: The University of Kurdistan Hawler (UKH) has a student body that is different from all other kind of Student bodies found in Kurdistan. It consists of seven departments: President Office, Social Affairs, Women Affairs, Sport Affairs, Education, Entertainment and Public Relation Department. Students are elected annually through competition and a fair election….
Iraq government and KRG don’t care about their citizens
By Mina Haider: When the indigenous Kurds and Arabs demand an extension of the US presence in Iraq, it’s not only because they know better than anyone that Iraq is held together with chicken wire and chewing gum and unable to protect its own sovereignty, but also because they know that Iraq is run by…
Choosing the right college in Kurdistan
By Meer Ako: Choosing the right college is a pivotal task for all students and this is often very burdensome. Most students’ lives hinge on what college they will end up in. This will determine how busy they will be, how much money they will be able to make, and what skills they will need…
It’s time for university reform in Iraqi Kurdistan
By Michael Rubin: It has been a decade since I ended my first sojourn in Iraqi Kurdistan. In between a post-doctorate fellowship in Washington, DC, and the start of my broader career, I went to teach English and history classes at the three universities which then existed in Iraqi Kurdistan. The universities were dynamic places….
