During Chairing 5th Meeting of Advisory Board 2024, His Excellency, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naeem Abd Yaser Al-Aboudi directed on automation of assessment tests for the academic year 2024-2025 and to proceed with the steps of establishing a college specialized in artificial intelligence.

Dr. Al-Aboudi emphasized on keeping pace with global knowledge and its developments and completing university procedures with a deliberate shift to electronic services that are part of the interests of citizens.

His Excellency urged continuing updating of curricula and educational programs, paying attention to develop students’ skills and qualify them to interact with the local and global labor market and intensifying work to support the technical and vocational education sector, which constitutes the basic infrastructure for developing human talent and capabilities.

The attendees reviewed a number of topics on the agenda and voted positively on the following decisions:

▪️ Preparing a strategic plan to support and develop research and study centers and strengthen their scientific fields in universities.

▪️Inaugurating the Department of Health Physics and Radiotherapy Technologies at the College of Engineering Technology, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University.

▪️Inaugurating a Marketing Management Department at the College of Management and Economics, Tikrit University.

▪️ Inaugurating evening studies in the Department of Translation at the College of Arts and the Department of Artificial Intelligence, the College of Computer Science and Information Technology, Anbar University.

▪️Inaugurating evening studies in the Medical Physics Branch of the Physics Department at the College of Science, the University of Babylon.

▪️ Approving on evaluation form for the Higher Diploma Project Discussion Committee.

Dr. Al-Aboudi concluded the meeting by directing all universities to take into account the requirements of the general examinations for preparatory studies that will be conducted in the environment of public and private universities and to contribute to the success of the examination process and respond to the requirements of the public interest.

It is worth to be mentioned that the meeting was attended by the advanced staff members and presidents of all public universities.