Yearly Archives: 2024

On Monday, the 26^th of February, 2024, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, led a delegation to participate in the “Roadmap Meeting to Combat Drugs and Psychological Effects” arranged by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

In the meeting session, the minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and several presidents of public and private universities, members of the High Committee to Fight Drugs, consultants, general directors, teachers, researchers, lawyers and experts.

The delegation of the Erbil Polytechnic University consisted of Asst. Prof. Yousef Mustafa Rasul, the Vice Rector for Student Affairs; Dr. Hataw Karim, and Dr. Ali Abdullah Saleh, academic staff of our University, Mr. Sarmand Nasraddin, the Administrative Director of the University Presidency and also an activist in the field of fighting drugs.

After reading several speeches, the agenda of the meeting started. For this purpose, two panels were held by Dr. Sabah Ibrahim Wais, the consultant of the Minister of Higher Education; Dr. Khatab Ahmad Mustafa, the Director of Education, Planning and Monitoring, the researchers and experts in the field discussed different aspects of drugs and expressed different opinions on how to set the roadmap of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to combat drugs and psychotropic substances.

The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Kurdistan Regional Government, has a major role in spreading awareness, capacity building, research and development, integrating drug issues into curricula, scientific use of media, social media and technology, as well as activating student counseling centers in universities to combat drugs and psychotropic substances. A special high committee has been formed with the participation of representatives of all ministries.

In this context, Erbil Polytechnic University has actively participated in the drafting of the roadmap to combat drugs, which is supervised by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

On Thursday, the 22^nd of February, 2024, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University; Dr. Zhala Saeed Khatat, the General Director of the Research and Development Office of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and the Vice Rectors of the University ended the eighth course of pedagogy in a ceremony and certificates were distributed on the participants of the course.

At the beginning of the ceremony, the Rector of the university delivered a speech in which he welcomed and congratulated the graduates and shed light on the importance of the course and said:

“On behalf of the council of the Erbil Polytechnic University, we want to congratulate the teachers who continued to teach the course for six months, especially those teachers who came from outside Erbil Polytechnic University and participated with us I express my gratitude towards. We also congratulate you teachers who successfully completed the course. After completing this course and obtaining this certificate you can apply to become a teacher in one of the universities in the Kurdistan Region.

In another part of his speech, the Rector said that pedagogical courses are a requirement to apply a request and become university teachers, the influence of the course that lasted for six months will have a great effect and very useful for you, a very good start to become a successful teacher. We have been university teachers for 30 years and we still need to study and prepare ourselves. We are trying to learn more about the sacred profession of teaching. Teaching is a sea and we must try to learn more every day and be successful especially in the university. You will not become a qualified and successful teacher with just one course. Suppose you have an average knowledge in your field and do not have many privileges, but you can be an excellent teacher and be much better than the teachers who have privileges. Therefore, from now and on and after receiving this certificate, build yourselves and become an excellent teacher which is important for us because you are here to become teachers, I warmly congratulate you and hope you serve successfully in Kurdistan universities.”

 At the end of the ceremony, graduation certificates were awarded to the teachers participated in the eighth course of pedagogy at the Erbil Polytechnic University.

It is worth mentioning that the attendees of the eighth course of pedagogy in the Erbil Polytechnic University consisted of 69 students who supervised a number of teachers inside and outside the Erbil Polytechnic University for six months.