The Representative of the Erbil Polytechnic University Rector participated in the meeting of the league of technical universities in Iraq held on the the 7-8th of March, 2024 in Basra City.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Nageb Toma Bato, representing the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, participated in the meeting held at the Southern Technical University, which focused on the evaluation of the second phase of the Technical and Vocational Education Development Project in Iraq (TVET-2). It included: (Degree programme, Quality Assurance. Internationalization).
Another topic of the meeting was the suggestions and opinions of the universities as a better preparation for the conduct of the third phase of the project to develop technical and vocational education in Iraq, which is supposed to begin soon in the next few months.
It is worth mentioning that the next project will focus on (green energy, practicing the framework of technical and vocational education qualifications, paying attention to the introduction of technical universities through the development of university websites.
On Wednesday, the 6th of March, 2024, in the presence of Prof. Dr. Edress Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, attended the first conference of the Mergasor Technical Institute entitled “Barzan in Resistance for Nationalization (Education and Learning & Environmental Protection and Coexistence)” with the participation of Prof. Dr. Abubakr Dewana Hamad, Dr. Abdullah Mullah, Prof. Dr. Farsat Marri, and Mr. Rekar Mazuri).
In the conference, Prof. Dr. Azad Hassan Qadir, the Vice Rector for the Administrative and Financial Affairs, Mr. Halgurd Sheikh Najib, the Supervisor of the Soran Independent Administration, Mr. Ghafoor Ahmad Mullaswar, the Governor of Mergasor District, a significant number of party and government officials, followers of different religions and sects, and academic and administrative staff, and students were present.
At the beginningof the conference, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki delivered a speech on behalf of the council of Erbil Polytechnic University and the council of Mergasur Technical Institute welcomed the guests and participants of the panel and said: In the field of education and environmental protection, the duty of the university is not only to provide science and information and conduct scientific research, but another important duty of the university is to serve society for social equality for a better economy to raise awareness among the society on various issues, especially on national issues.”
“Today, the writers and lecturers of the university who are participating in this panel with us I want to want ot express my warm gratitude towards their presence and I do not want to go into the issues, but what is important I want to talk about education since the beginning of the Barzan revolutions and Sheikh Abdulsalam Barzani, who played an important role in the construction and preparation of schools, especially religious schools, this path continues today. If we look at the role of the late Barzani in the establishment of the Union of Islamic Scholars, which played a major role and was established by his order, then the Kurdistan Teachers Union and paid attention to education in Kurdish In 1970, it was established that this subject should be taught in Kurdish and later the Kurdish Information Forum was established by the late Barzani. These are some examples of the role of the Barzan sheikhs in education.”
“We are pleased that today the Mergasor Technical Institute appreciates the role of several people who are in a high scientific rank of professor, who are the sons of this region and educated themselves on this path to reach this level and results. We welcome you again and I hope this region will remain proud. Welcome everyone again. Thank you very much for your presence.”
Later, the programs of the conference consisted of a panel presentation with the participation of “Prof. Dr. Abubakr Dewana Hamad, Dr. Abdullah Mullah, Prof. Dr. Farsat Marri, Mr. Rekar Mazuri” in which they detailed the stages of the Barzani resistance and revolution. After the panel, the President of Erbil Polytechnic University, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki and the Supervisor of Soran Independent Administration, Mr. Halgurd Sheikh Najib, awarded certificates to the participants.
In the second part of the conference, as a tribute to their efforts in the field of science and academia, shields of honor were awarded to a group of professors who were born or from Mergasor district and the conference ended.
Within the framework of the internationalization strategy of the Erbil Polytechnic University and according to the Memorandum of Understanding between Erbil Polytechnic University and Lodz University in Poland, Prof. Dr. Walaa Jaudet was selected to teach as a visiting lecturer at the University of Lodz.
It is worth mentioning that the lecturer will teach three subjects (Soft Skill, International University Resource Management, Business Presentation Technology) with a total of 60 hours from the 26th of February to 30th of April, 2024.
Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University, participated in the Congress of the Union of Arab Universities that will be held on the 3rd to 6th of March, 2024 at the Baghdad University.
The Rector of the Erbil Polytechnic University participated in the opening ceremony of the 56th Public Congress of the Union of Arab Universities, which was conducted under the supervision and presence of the Iraqi Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naeem Aboudi and Dr. Amr Izzat Salama, the General Secretary of the Union of Arab Universities began its work.
After opening the ceremony of the congress, which was held in the presence of the Iraqi Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naeem Aboudi, Prof. Dr. Edrees Muhamad Tahir Harki, the Erbil Polytechnic University Rector and Presidents of Kurdistan Regional Universit on behalf of the Kurdistan Region, they performed a series of meetings with the participants of the congress.
In these meetings, the Kurdistan delegation exchanged views on the development of relationships and collaboration between universities.
The conference is scheduled to discuss several issues related to the education process in universities, including international collaboration, the Bologna system, Arab classification projects for Arab universities and several other important issues.
It is worth mentioning that the Erbil Polytechnic University is one of the member universities of the Union of Arab Universities that is officially invited to the annual congress of the Union, each session hosted by a member university.
