BackAn Iraqi government initiative has seen hundreds of Iraqi students enrolled at universities and colleges across the US and the UK in an effort to start rebuilding Iraq’s once-renowned higher education system. The Iraq Education Initiative intends to provide education opportunities for over 600 young men and women this year before eventually expanding into Australia, Canada, France and Japan.
About half of the students have gone to the US where they have enrolled at twenty-two colleges including the University of Kansas, Oregon State University and the University of West Virginia.
The Academy for Educational Development, an international non-profit organisation for higher education, is helping to run the project in the US and has asked participating universities to fast-track applications from Iraqi students.
The students will initially spend time at intensive language schools in order to improve their English skills to enable higher education study but this appears to be the only weak spot with many department heads already commenting on the outstanding ability of many of the students and predicting they will be “upper-echelon students”.
Iraq previously had one of the most highly-respected higher education systems in the world but with much of the infrastructure being destroyed during the conflict the country is keen to rebuild its education network. It is hoped that by receiving training in other countries in the interim period Iraq will be able to speed up the rebuilding process. The students are on full scholarships from the Iraqi government during their studies. They are also planning on building an English language institute in Baghdad to allow students whose language skills are not strong enough to improve before going abroad to study.
Zuhair A.G. Humadi, the driving force behind the Iraq Education Initiative will be honoured at this week’s annual conference of NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
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Hi, thanks for reading the i-studentadvisor blog. You can find information on the Iraq Education Initiative and how to apply here: http://www.hcediraq.org/
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I am a veterinarian doctor , I live in Iraq-Tamim city, I want get scholarship program.
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I am a lawyer , I live in Iraq-Sulaimani city, I want to get scholarship program.
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Hi, I have a long story which i can cut it short by asking this: is it possible for an iraqi scholar studying at the doctoral level to transfer his credits from a Canadian to an US University? Please contact me for more details via email and I shall explain more.
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