Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, paid an official visit to the UK last week with a high-level delegation from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research consisted several ministry advisors, general directors and the presidents of Salahaddin, Sulaimaniya, Duhok, and Garmian universities.
The main purpose of the visit was to establish partnerships and collaboration between the universities of the Kurdistan Region and the UK. In this context, they visited a number of universities in the UK and held a series of academic and scientific meetings.
During the visit of the high delegation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kurdistan Region to the University of Nottingham, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki shed light on the structure of the Erbil Polytechnic University and the scientific departments that our university needs more cooperation and support especially the new ones which are rare in the Kurdistan Region and the region.
They also emphasized the internationalization of the university, participation and partnership of our university in the fields of research, exchange of teachers and students, review of curricula and assistance to train teachers in the fields that our university needs.
During the visit of the high-level delegation of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kurdistan Region to the UK, they visited Loughborough University, where the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University delivered a seminar.
In the seminar, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki focused on the history and structure of the Erbil Polytechnic University and the university data and curricula, as well as higher education programs and the number of higher education students in higher diploma, master and doctorate in our university.
Then, the President of the Erbil Polytechnic University spoke about the needs of the scientific departments that are new in our university and have been opened as the needs of the labor market and need more support.
During their visit to the UK, the delegation visited both Aston and Sussex Universities and after their meetings they visited the laboratories and scientific departments of the universities.
Our university presidency plans to establish long-term academic and scientific relations with these universities and to follow up on the content of the understandings established with these universities.
