UNIVERSITY OF KURDISTAN HEWLER Ahang Kawany Deputy Manager

UNIVERSITY OF KURDISTAN HEWLER Ahang Kawany Deputy Manager of Public Relations University of Kurdistan Hewlêr 11 th August, 2017 Also Managing Director and partner of Erbil Centre / PETEX- Texas university www. ukh. edu. krd 2

EDUCATION THRIVES IN KURDISTAN DESPITE BEING A WAR ZONE • Kurdistan Region, located in North of Iraq, is a multi-national, multi cultural, and multi political party with a language spoken in 5 dialects. • Kurdistan region has committed itself to build a democratic system in the heart of the Middle East www. ukh. edu. krd 3

EDUCATION THRIVES IN KURDISTAN DESPITE BEING A WAR ZONE • Since 2003 war, Iraq has been a heaven for terrorists yet, the KRG thrived in establishing a functional government • Economy was flourishing from 2003 -2014 until Islamic state of Iraq and Levant known as ISIS attacked Iraq after Syria. • Kurdistan Region with a small army and almost no ammunition fought bravely to protect its region and later on fought on behalf of the world. www. ukh. edu. krd 4

Education • Kurdistan Region Gov. Believes in promoting democracy by strengthening education and building human capacity • Since 2003 KRG has tried to connect to the western world and be part of globalization • Both public and privet universities in Kurdistan are paying a very special attention to education in general. • Having educational programs that complies with international standard. www. ukh. edu. krd 5

Education • Providing high quality learning opportunities, research, enterprise and community engagements that are strongly linked to the needs and requirements of Kurdistan and the wider region • Comprehensible teaching and learning strategy observed • Effective steps are taking place for international accreditation for educational system in general (universities in particular). www. ukh. edu. krd 6

EDUCATION THRIVES IN KURDISTAN • Despite all what happened imagine none of our universities closed • None of our hospitals refused to take injured people from all over Iraq. • ISIS was killing and committing atrocities but KRG, with its people was standing strong by Peshmergas and internally and internationally displaced people. • Giving more than 1700 peshmerga martyrs yet, the land its’s people are safe above all the difficulties. www. ukh. edu. krd 7

EDUCATION THRIVES IN KURDISTAN • Imagine a land of 5 million people accepted 2. 5 million refugees, provided them with food, shelter and EDUCATION • Many of those refugees are enrolled in schools and universities • Refugee camps have their own schools so no child stays behind. • Our university and many other charity organizations are helping in educating those children, UKH included www. ukh. edu. krd 8

EDUCATION THRIVES IN KURDISTAN • Displaced students from other cities of Iraq have been accepted at their stage in universities and schools as per KRG decision without questioning their race, religion and ethnicity. • Hundreds of displaced lecturers and professors have been accepted and started working and lecturing at Kurdistan’s universities with no obstacles and difficulties, as well as hundreds of physicians, and many other professions www. ukh. edu. krd 9

EDUCATION THRIVES IN KURDISTAN ALL THIS WAS POSSIBLE BECAUSE OF the will of KRG to keep the society in a safe zone and INTERNATIONL AID AND THE COMMITMENT OF Kurdistan to thrive in education www. ukh. edu. krd 10

UNIVERSITY OF KURDISTAN HEWLER The University of Kurdistan Hewlêr is the only public university in Kurdistan Region that is fully designed on an international Educational System and the language of communication is English. www. ukh. edu. krd 11

UNIVERSITY VISION To provide high quality learning opportunities, research, enterprise and community engagements that are strongly linked to the needs and requirements of Kurdistan and the wider region www. ukh. edu. krd 12

UNIVERSITY STAFF • With language of communication being English, our staff are drawn from the developed world supported by an attractive remuneration package with a tax-free salary to deliver the University’s aims and objectives. • We currently have academics from USA, UK, Australia, Canada, the Far East and many other countries; www. ukh. edu. krd 13

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS • They are accepted based on a ridged competitive and fully transparent system from G 12 graduates within Kurdistan Region • Total Staff: 145, ü 59 Academics ü 86 Administration. • Student to staff ratio is around 10. www. ukh. edu. krd 14

UNIVERSITY OPTIONS and ACADEMIC SCHOOLS • School of Science and Engineering: a. Natural Resources Engineering and Management; b. Computer Science and Engineering. • School of Social Sciences (SSS): a. Business and Management Sciences; b. Politics and International Relations; c. English Language Centre; d. Pearson Centre. • School of Medical Sciences; • Centre of Regional and International Studies; • Library. www. ukh. edu. krd 15

School of Science and Engineering Undergraduate Program: BSc in: a. Petroleum Eng. b. Water Resources Eng. c. Mineral Resources Eng. d. Civil Eng. Postgraduate Program: a. MSc in Petroleum Eng. b. Recently established Ph. D program www. ukh. edu. krd 16

Key points • NREM has a strong relation with Industry. Students are equally offered internship and placement in all programs to educate and train a competent graduate; • SPE Chapter is International Society of Petroleum Engineering, running and offering free membership for our students; • BSc in Civil Engineering is a dual degree between UKH and Lebanese-American university in Lebanon. www. ukh. edu. krd 17

School of Social Sciences Departments: • Politics and International Relations (PIR); • Business and Management Sciences (BMS); • English Learning Centre (ELC); • Centre for Regional & International Studies (CRIS). www. ukh. edu. krd 18

Degree-Programmes Undergraduate: • BA (Hons) Politics and International Relations; • BSc (Hons) Business and Management; • BSc (Hons) Economics and Finance; • BSc (Hons) Public Management and Administration; • BSc (Hons) Accounting. www. ukh. edu. krd 19

Degree-Programmes Postgraduate: • MA in International Studies; • MA Business Management; • Executive MBA; • Recently established Ph. D program. • Ph. D programs in Politics, International Relations & Engineering www. ukh. edu. krd 20

School of Medical Sciences • This school has been established in accordance to the Bologna Process and in full collaboration with a number of well established medical schools in the United Kingdom and Austria. • Its program provides a triple degree in medical sciences that is unique not only at a regional level but also in the developed countries. www. ukh. edu. krd 21

New Schools • The School of Linguistics: – BA in English Language; – MA in English Literature • Kurdistan Business School(KBS): – New Degrees to include: – BSc in Accounting; – BSc in Human Resource management; – BSc in Marketing; – MSc in Economics. www. ukh. edu. krd 22

Quality • PIR Graduates are studying in the top European universities; following their higher education. • We have external examination system that examiners from abroad come to monitor the process of student progress and assessments at all levels. • External examiners report: Quality of the programs equal to a medium range British university. • PIR Exchange Program with Sciences Po. • High employment rates, and high demand for SSS graduates. www. ukh. edu. krd 23

Impact Indicator Where our graduates go? • In that respect we are proud to say that most of our graduates are working in high level places and for well established private and public organizations including UN, PWC and Oil companies in general. • Our students are better fit to be engaged to the outside world because of their English proficiency and good training with strong and scientific background, which has help them to engage faster and be productive members where they work at. www. ukh. edu. krd 24

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OUR DEED: • To be a platform for reforming Higher Education in Kurdistan. • To raise our profile to be comparable to world class Higher Education Institutions. • To be able to respond to the socio-political and economical needs of Kurdistan at this critical juncture of its history. www. ukh. edu. krd 26

Friends in Need, Friends Indeed • Establishing sistership with your universitiescooperation at all academic levels including exchange programmes, conducting joint research, Supervision of postgraduate candidates, Teaching and Learning and staff development. • Knowledge of and Engagement with sources of financial support for scientific projects relevant to the skills and expertise of our staff. • Support for Entrepreneurial and business incubation projects. www. ukh. edu. krd 27

Why UKH? • The only Public university that applies the international educational system. • The only Public university that the entire curriculum is taught in English • We have managed to tune in our university based on market and society needs of Kurdistan and beyond. www. ukh. edu. krd 28

Why UKH? • As a result we have not expanded drastically , our university has remained small concentrating on quality and specific programs of need. Thus we have a small number of students. • We are in communication with several universities including; Leyster, Hull, Sussex and Birmingham, and all our communications include cooperation at all levels, including exchange programs, joint Ph. D supervision, joint research projects, academic exchange as well as student exchange program. www. ukh. edu. krd 29

BUILLDING A BETTER FUTURE FOR KURDISTAN www. ukh. edu. krd 30

THANK YOU www. ukh. edu. krd 31