During the celebration held to honor the winners of the Higher Education Reading Award, His Excellency, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naeem Abd Yaser Al-Aboudi confirmed that the award in which more than forty-two thousand students were registered, contributed to stimulating the cultural awareness responsible for promoting trends in productive and creative thinking at the individual and societal levels today and in the future.

Dr. Al-Aboudi expressed his congratulations and appreciation to all the winners, participants, the supportive universities and colleges, members of the organizing and technical committees who delivered an worthy effort of praise and appreciation.

For his part, Ministry’s Advisor and the Head of the organizing committee, Dr. Allaa Abd Al-Hassan Attia reviewed the stages of preparing and organizing the award and the mechanisms for conducting the lottery among the 100 participated students who achieved the highest scores in the test that took place on the fifteenth of last September.

It is worth to be mentioned that a large crowd of public and private university faculty members and students were participated.