The opinion committee of the Ministry of higher education and scientific research voted on a decision to honor the first valedictorian in the evaluation exam of the medical and health group at public universities and exempt the first three valedictorians in the same exam from tuition fees at private universities and colleges.
* The meeting of the opinion committee, chaired by the minister of higher education and scientific research, Dr. Naim al-Aboudi, discussed the indicators of the evaluation exams taken by one hundred twenty-nine thousand and three hundred and ninety students in public and private universities within the specialties of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing and medical laboratory techniques, and the members voted on a number of decisions in this regard:*
▪️ Honoring the first excellent student in the calendar exam at public universities with a financial reward.
Exemption of the first three students in the evaluation exam in private universities and colleges from tuition fees by 100% for the first student, 50% for the second student and 25% for the third student.
▪️ The committee of deans of Health and medical technical specialties determines other specialties with two sections to be covered by the evaluation exam.
▪️ Assigning the deans ‘ committees (Dentistry, Pharmacy, Nursing, Health and medical technical specialties) to determine additional subjects in the assessment exam for academic stages instead of two subjects.
▪️ Inclusion of engineering faculties ( third and fourth stage), law faculties (for the second, third and fourth stages) and engineering technologies (third and fourth stage) in the assessment exam.
▪️ The continuation of the suspension of the introduction of Evening Studies in nursing faculties and departments at universities and community colleges.
▪️ Suspend the development of medical laboratory departments in private universities and colleges, except in cases of scientific partnership with public universities.
▪️ Suspension of admission for a full academic year for departments whose success rate was less than 10%.
▪️ Take the necessary measures against the dean of the faculty, the head of the department and the teaching staff against the background of not reaching the 30% percentage in the evaluation exam grades and deducting a percentage of the capacity of the lagging departments.
The minister of higher education and scientific research, Dr. Naim al-Aboudi, urged all universities to take care of students and empower them with the philosophy and skills of the specialties included in the evaluation exam, which achieved positive results in evaluating the performance indicators of the educational process in the medical and health fields that directly affect the life of society.
* The meeting discussed the other topics on the agenda of the eighth regular meeting of the opinion Committee and voted in the affirmative on both:*
▪️ Increasing the admission plan for the morning private public education channel at Jaber bin Hayyan University of medical and pharmaceutical sciences and Avicenna University of Medical Sciences, in line with its plan for central admission.
Introduction of evening study in the Department of electronics and Communications Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Qadisiya and the Department of antiquities at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Samara.
The minister of Education concluded the meeting of the RAI committee with guidance on intensifying scientific and procedural efforts related to the adoption of the Bologna track in the faculties of engineering and science, enhancing cooperation in the fields of scientific research with researchers at international universities, improving quality and enhancing its environment, which contributes to the development of Iraqi universities ‘ positions in international rankings.
