Comments on: Iraq – The cradle of civilization, can the civilization of advanced higher education return? http://www.iu.qs.com/2010/03/16/iraq-%e2%80%93-the-cradle-of-civilization-can-the-civilization-of-advanced-higher-education-return/ The latest insights into university rankings, higher education performance evaluation and institutional research. Thu, 10 May 2012 15:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Abby Chau http://www.iu.qs.com/2010/03/16/iraq-%e2%80%93-the-cradle-of-civilization-can-the-civilization-of-advanced-higher-education-return/#comment-200 Abby Chau Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:07:17 +0000 http://iu.qs.com/?p=129#comment-200 100 academics, 22 university presidents , and education officials debated the status of higher education in Iraq recently. For the full coverage, see below. http://chronicle.com/article/Iraqi-Academics-Come-Together/126100/ 100 academics, 22 university presidents , and education officials debated the status of higher education in Iraq recently. For the full coverage, see below.

http://chronicle.com/article/Iraqi-Academics-Come-Together/126100/

]]> By: Abby Chau http://www.iu.qs.com/2010/03/16/iraq-%e2%80%93-the-cradle-of-civilization-can-the-civilization-of-advanced-higher-education-return/#comment-199 Abby Chau Tue, 05 Oct 2010 09:21:56 +0000 http://iu.qs.com/?p=129#comment-199 There seems to be movement on this subject, especially now that the US have moved most their troops out of Iraq and officially handed over responsibilities to the Iraqis. Henry G. Jarecki, chairman of the Scholar Rescue Fund, is asking scholars to come back to Iraq. The Chronicle covers this story. http://chronicle.com/article/A-Message-From-Iraq-to-Its/124666/ There seems to be movement on this subject, especially now that the US have moved most their troops out of Iraq and officially handed over responsibilities to the Iraqis. Henry G. Jarecki, chairman of the Scholar Rescue Fund, is asking scholars to come back to Iraq. The Chronicle covers this story. http://chronicle.com/article/A-Message-From-Iraq-to-Its/124666/

]]> By: Deena Al Hilli http://www.iu.qs.com/2010/03/16/iraq-%e2%80%93-the-cradle-of-civilization-can-the-civilization-of-advanced-higher-education-return/#comment-198 Deena Al Hilli Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:01:13 +0000 http://iu.qs.com/?p=129#comment-198 After writing my last blog on higher education in Iraq, I attended the Going Global 4 conference organised by the British Council. They had a very interesting seminar on Iraq: Meeting the challenges through education reform and partnerships, which encouraged me to write a follow up piece on my last blog. In the piece above, I wrote about the few Iraqi students leaving Iraq for a better education, asking what happens now to the many Iraqi students who are left behind, however this seminar enlightened me on the many projects that are taking place in Iraq to help rebuild the higher education system. There were three schemes presented on the day, in addition to a presentation by the minister of higher education in Kurdistan that highlighted the ministry’s vision of rebuilding the higher education within the Kurdish region of Iraq. DELPHE is a scheme funded by the Department of International Development and managed by the British Council in Iraq, to support partnerships between Iraqi higher education institutions and those in other countries. Rawabit, the Arabic word for links/partners, is another scheme supported by the British council that aims to support long term development and modernisation of the Iraqi technical education sector. The third scheme was HELMI, Higher Education Leadership and Management in Iraq, a scheme that aims to contribute to the longer-term development of the HE internationalisation agendas of the UK and Iraq. Each scheme presented showed a lot of hope and potential for rebuilding the higher education sector in Iraq, with focus on teacher training, curriculum development, Quality Assurance Systems, leadership and management programs for deans and other academics. Although a lot of time is needed to reach the targeted level of high quality education, it appears that a lot of research, funds and time are going into rebuilding and improving a higher education system that was once the pride of Iraq. After writing my last blog on higher education in Iraq, I attended the Going Global 4 conference organised by the British Council. They had a very interesting seminar on Iraq: Meeting the challenges through education reform and partnerships, which encouraged me to write a follow up piece on my last blog. In the piece above, I wrote about the few Iraqi students leaving Iraq for a better education, asking what happens now to the many Iraqi students who are left behind, however this seminar enlightened me on the many projects that are taking place in Iraq to help rebuild the higher education system.
There were three schemes presented on the day, in addition to a presentation by the minister of higher education in Kurdistan that highlighted the ministry’s vision of rebuilding the higher education within the Kurdish region of Iraq. DELPHE is a scheme funded by the Department of International Development and managed by the British Council in Iraq, to support partnerships between Iraqi higher education institutions and those in other countries. Rawabit, the Arabic word for links/partners, is another scheme supported by the British council that aims to support long term development and modernisation of the Iraqi technical education sector. The third scheme was HELMI, Higher Education Leadership and Management in Iraq, a scheme that aims to contribute to the longer-term development of the HE internationalisation agendas of the UK and Iraq.
Each scheme presented showed a lot of hope and potential for rebuilding the higher education sector in Iraq, with focus on teacher training, curriculum development, Quality Assurance Systems, leadership and management programs for deans and other academics. Although a lot of time is needed to reach the targeted level of high quality education, it appears that a lot of research, funds and time are going into rebuilding and improving a higher education system that was once the pride of Iraq.

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