During inaugurating of the 7th annual conference of the College of Political Science at Al-Nahrain University, entitled (Iraq in Light of Regional and International Changes), His Excellency, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naeem Abd Yaser Al-Aboudi confirmed on adopting of the policy of internationalizing higher education and attracting international students within the (Study in Iraq) program.

Dr. Al-Aboudi said that the Ministry adopted a policy and methodology aimed at internationalizing higher education and linking its academic programs with global knowledge variables and succeeded in achieving opening up to the recognized educational centers in international forums and being able to formulate twinning opportunities with international universities in various programs and specializations that serve the development movement in Iraq.

His Excellency added that the combination of the educational strategy and its contexts with the Government’s program and the Ministerial curriculum opened the way to invest in all available opportunities, mobilize available energies and harness all material and cognitive capabilities to achieve the desired results in the educational process.

It is worth to be mentioned that the conference included delivering a number of speeches by the President of Al-Nahrain University, Dr. Ali Al-Shawi, and the Dean of the College of Political Sciences, Dr. Osama Al-Saidi, as well as research sessions that addressed several axes, namely the status of Iraq in light of regional and international transformations, the trends of Iraq’s foreign policy and Iraq’s internal policy for stability and development, as well as the axis of Iraq’s policy of economic situation in light of regional variables.