During the 1st scholarship conference held by the High Committee for Education Development in Iraq, His Excellency, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr.  Naeem Abd Yaser Al-Aboudi announced the submission of more than three thousand international students to study in Iraqi universities for the academic year 2023/2024.

Dr. Al-Aboudi confirmed that the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research succeeded in establishing its pioneering project tagged (study in Iraq) to attract international students to study in Iraqi universities whose official platforms have documented more than three thousand applicants from Arabic and foreign countries.

His Excellency reviewed that the Ministry’s readiness on holding a conference on internationalization of education, which will be held next November, to host a group of universities that top the first quarter of the results of the Shanghai Ranking in order to expand the horizons of partnership between Iraqi universities and their international counterparts and to consolidate the vision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research towards turning into Bologna Process, global openness, and scientific keeping up with the variables of academic knowledge.

Dr. Al-Aboudi added that the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has deliberately employed the energies of scholarship students scientifically and administratively in the academic institution and that its procedures are not limited to approve scholarships and update scholarship evidence, but it is also responsible for the course of granted scholarships to Iraq.

His Excellency continued by saying that the Ministry has completed more than six hundred fellowships since the beginning of this year, as well as research grant programs, visiting professorships and academic sabbaticals bedsides memorandums of understanding with Arab and foreign educational institutions and cooperation contexts with specialized international organizations.

It is worth to be mentioned that the conference activities witnessed  delivering a number of official speeches, presentations, and a review of the success stories achieved by Iraqi students on scholarships in universities around the world.