The Ministry of Education reveals a comprehensive review of the Higher Education Strategy to 2030

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research revealed the formation of a specialized committee to comprehensively review the strategy of higher education in Iraq and develop appropriate scientific perceptions of the variables until the year 2030

The Minister associate, Dr. Ali Hamid Al-Shukry, in his speech on behalf of the Minister, Prof. Dr. Nabil Kazem Abdel-Saheb, said during the scientific symposium held by the Department of Studies, Planning, and Follow-up on the reality of universities and their future from the global perspective and development and partnerships that the global momentum in the field of education. He stressed that the mission of universities is linked mainly to the goal of the developmental industry and to meet the community’s needs of diverse knowledge that naturally requires specialized scientific staff and conducting research and experiments to perpetuate knowledge. Also, find solutions to various problems; economic, social, political, scientific, and technical contexts.

He appreciated the partnership proposal submitted by UNESCO with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to establish a national center for intelligent education in Iraq and the consequent roadmap towards research cooperation and the exchange of scholars and scholarships with the best universities, institutions, and international organizations.

He continued that the trend towards improving the quality of higher education remains an important strategy to reform goal related to set timings and is based on a plan to involve knowledge, science, and deep academic achievement and seeks to enhance the foundations of the environment that guarantee scientific research by supporting the competencies that pay great attention to the research work away from unilateral impulses. This necessitated that we support this trend and form councils for national accreditation for colleges of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and health colleges, as well as national councils for engineering and technical accreditation, for pure sciences, human and social sciences, and accreditation of colleges of agriculture and veterinary medicine.

For his part, Director of Studies, Planning, and Follow-up, Dr. Ihab Naji Abbas, said in his speech that the Ministry of Higher Education and its concerned departments see the necessity of developing the path of education, knowledge, and skills, developing adaptive capacity and scientific communication, upgrading the creative side, and strengthening partnerships with international organizations and international universities.
In turn, the President of Al-Hussein Technical University in Jordan, Professor Ismail Al-Hanti, gave a presentation in which he summarized the challenges of education at this stage and reviewed the goals and tasks of the universities to create a state of balance between marketing knowledge and providing job opportunities and keeping pace with the speed of technological developments in all levels and sectors, calling for a focus on the concepts and skills of learning and creating a space of integration and conflict with the private sector.

In this context, Dr. Nigel Bucks, a professor at the University of Sheffield, in Britain, participated in a scientific paper that included a tribute to the Mesopotamian civilization and the identity of knowledge in Iraq, stressing that Iraqi students abroad have important scientific discoveries in many universities in the world, adding that the most important challenge facing educational institutions in Iraq is increasing Population growth, which doubles its responsibilities in taking into account the acceleration in the development of higher education and scientific research fields.

He continued that the Ministry of Education must review the national strategy for higher education and read the changes in the next time horizon.

In turn, the participants from university presidents, professors, and researchers presented their opinions of all academic contexts related to developing skills, organizing the complementary relationship with the private sector, focusing on the area of development required in the field of academic curricula in Iraqi universities, and funding applied research to cover scientific needs.

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* Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research *
* March 20, 2021