The education system in the Kurdistan-Iraq
Due to the political situation of the Kurdish region after 1991 and the emergence of the Kurdish administration was in the three Kurdish provinces of Arbil, Duhok and Sulaymaniya, partly reform on education. Teacher education has become more demanding.
In 2007, the Ministry of Education of the the Kurdistan region organized a conference that led to the fact that the educational structure adapted to some European systems.
The general examinations in the sixth and ninth grade have been abolished. Many new textbooks are translated from English. The English language is integrated from the first year in the school curriculum. In the region of Kurdistan a total of 1,193,968 students have been registered for the 2007-2008 school year.
Universities and Colleges
- University Suleymaniyah, 1991
University Salahaddin, 1968- University Dohuk, 1992
- University Koya, 2003
- University of Kurdistan, 2006
- The American University of Iraq in Suleymaniyya, 2007
- Hawler Medical University, 2006
- Business & Management University, 2007
- Işık University (Private, Donated by Fethullah Gülen), 2008
On 5 October 2009 in the city of Arbil and on 7 October 2009 in the city Suleymaniyya French schools were Opened, which are named according to Danielle Mitterrand. The study fees for the first semester per student amount 2400 U.S. dollars, for the later semesters, then 2000 U.S. dollars.
Promoting private colleges in Kurdistan
At the beginning of wisdom: When was the mountain will not come to Mohammed, the prophet must be just to the mountain."Our goal was," says Dr. Yousif Assaf, "for students wishing to study in Europe, bringing Europe to Kurdistan". Two years have passed since he has started. Dr. Yousif Assaf opened in 2007 in Arbil, a private university: the Lebanese-French University for Administrative Sciences (BMU).
"Our teachers and professors are from abroad. The curricula and teaching methods are similar to those in Europe. "Dr. Yousif Assaf is convinced:" That is what the students want. "
The number of enrollments gives the President of the BMU right. "For the academic year 2008/2009 around 6,000 students have enrolled at private universities in the Federal Region of Kurdistan-Iraq,"says Dr. Himdad Abdulqahar, the Director-General responsible for private universities in the higher education ministry in the region. Rising. "It is to be expected," said the Director-General, "that this number in the coming years multipies."
education booming
because the business of private education has just begun. Opened in 2006 with the University of Kurdistan-Hewler the first English-language university in Arbil.
A year later, followed Cihan University and the Lebanese-French University of Dr. Yousif Assaf. In 2008, then was, with the support of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister of the Federal Region of Kurdistan-Iraq Nechervan Barzani, in the city of Sulaymaniya founded an American university.
The Goethe Institute in Erbil
Recently there is a small but fine Goethe Institute in Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan. It is the first cultural center in the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region and wants to bring the Iraqis close to German culture - from classics such as Goethe and Schiller to German pop.
This German cultural outpost is apparently well accepted by the population . Many Iraqis take the opportunity to learn here in German. Pop.
