Published at: 01-11-2022

A Delegation from UoH Participates in a Field Visit within the Framework of APPRAIS Project

Powerd by: UoH

A delegation from the UoH consisting of Prof. Dr. Dana Abdullah Tahir, Vice-President for Scientific and Higher Education Affairs, Dr. Ahmed Muhammad Rashid Meera, Dean of College of Education- Sharazoor, and Mr. Aram Muhammad Qadir, Director of Quality Assurance participated in a double field visit at the University of Pisa in Italy and the University of Evora in Portugal from the 17th of October until the 21st of October, 2022.

Apart from the UoH delegation, 24 key staff members from other Kurdish universities which were Vice presidents, directors of Quality Assurance, deans as well as representatives from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research participated in the field visit which was within the framework of APPRAIS project.

The objective of the visit was to meet the European Heads of departments, Deans and Vice Presidents, Directors of QA and other related university staff of both University of Pisa and University of Evora. The Kurdish partner members had the occasion to make a comparison between their ways of carrying out procedures and mechanisms in key areas such as the implementation of quality standard, the management of the internationalization units, the management of research activities, and more. The field visits were very practical as a number of visits at the main university offices have been organized with the purpose of sharing experiences.

The Kurdish university staff was able to visit the quality assurance offices of both universities and to compare and dialogue with EU directors, administrative staff and teachers, thus presenting the concrete and daily management of the QA office in the two different contexts, one Italian university and one Portuguese university.

The field visit comes after two other training weeks that were held at the University of Oslo and the University of Sulaimani in May and June 2022 respectively. Such training opportunities help the Kurdish higher education institutions to work more on the mechanism of their university, enhancing aspects of teaching and research, and students services. Additionally, these events help the Kurdish universities to gather enough knowledge and experience to establish inter-institutional agreements with EU academic institution in their future.

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