The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naim Al-Abboudi, confirmed the adoption of the policy of internationalizing higher education and attracting international students within the “Study in Iraq” program.
This came in his speech during the opening of the seventh annual conference of the Faculty of Political Science at Al-Nahrain University, which came under the title (Iraq’s position in light of regional and international changes), where he said that the Ministry of Higher Education adopted a policy and methodology aimed at internationalizing higher education and linking its academic programs with the variables of global knowledge and succeeded in opening up to the sober educational metropolises in international forums and was able to formulate twinning opportunities with international universities in various programs and specializations that serve the development movement in Iraq.
He added that the synergy of the educational strategy and the synergy of its contexts with the government program and the ministerial curriculum opened the way to invest all available opportunities, mobilize the available energies and harness all material and knowledge capabilities to achieve the desired results in the educational process.
The conference included a number of speeches by the President of Al-Nahrain University, Dr. Ali Al-Shawi, and the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science, Dr. Osama Al-Saidi, as well as research sessions on several topics, including Iraq’s position in light of regional and international transformations, the trends of Iraq’s foreign policy, Iraq’s domestic policy for stability and development, and Iraq’s economic policy in light of regional changes.
