Higher Education Reform Workshop
In addition, the workshop has invited the Ministry of Higher Education to adopt a scientific strategy as a scientific guide to all universities, and to review the curriculum to keep up with the scientific progress made.
On the other hand, the workshop has advocated for reviewing the licenses granted by the ministries to the private colleges and universities, and the necessity to control their work and evaluate their outputs in a scientific way. It also invited for requiring them to twin with a foreign reputable universities and to have special staffing requirements, as well as to provide solid scientific laboratories, while private universities should have qualitative addition.
Furthermore, the workshop has called for encouraging the reputable foreign universities to open branches in Iraq, inviting to add a foreign language subject to be taught seriously. It also called for focusing on teaching in foreign languages for all disciplines, stressing the necessity to qualify students to use computer as a necessary tool for learning and working.