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VII. Improve Quality and Access to Higher Education
Oversee, reform and reconstruct higher education
institutions; Re-integrate the universities in the North; Re-integrate Iraqis
with global community; Reform curriculum; and provide access to essential
information
Saddam’s Legacy
The higher education system in Iraq was highly regarded and high performing. In
the early 1980s, public funds began to be siphoned off for military expenditures
and other priorities of the ruling regime. Combined with the politicization of
the education system, which influenced everything from curriculum, teaching,
staff, and admission policies, the system went into a steady decline, and by
Liberation all schools were closed. Iraq’s 20 universities and 43 technical
colleges and institutes faced a similar decline. The looting following
liberation compounded an already devastated educational system by destroying
many classrooms, libraries, buildings and laboratories. Almost all of the 80
higher education required significant reconstruction.
The regime also devastating the human and intellectual resources in the Higher
Education sector. Iraqi professors and students themselves were isolated through
suffocating procedures Saddam imposed on all aspects of intellectual exchange,
particularly prohibitions on international travel by academics.
Coalition Partner Activities to Improve Higher Education Sector
CPA partners will focus on activities that will:
· Rehabilitate the educational infrastructure to meet basic standards and ensure
provision of basic educational supplies and tools
· Form foundation to return Iraqi education system, enrollment and attendance,
especially for females, to its pre-1980s levels
For more information, please visit:
www.usaid.gov/iraq/accomplishments/education.html
www.fulbright.org
Coalition Partner Activities to Improve Higher Education Sector
CPA partners will focus on activities that will:
· Rehabilitate the educational infrastructure to meet basic standards and
ensure provision of basic educational supplies and tools
· Form foundation to return Iraqi education system, enrollment and
attendance, especially for females, to its pre-1980s levels
For more information, please visit:
www.usaid.gov/iraq/accomplishments/education.html
www.fulbright.org
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