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      <title>Kurdistan Suspends Foreign Investment in Education</title>
      <description>The government of Iraq's northern Kurdistan region has decided to suspend foreign investment in the education sector, in an effort to tackle low standards of teaching in the semi-autonomous province, Meed has reported.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/68630/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Conference on Technical Education in Duhuk</title>
      <description>The first scientific conference on vocational education in the northern Kurdistan region will be held in Duhuk in October, a local official said on Tuesday.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/68458/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Swedish University  Delegation in Duhuk</title>
      <description>A delegation comprised of students and academicians from the Swedish Lund University has visited the University of Duhuk to get acquainted with the geography of the area, an informed source said on Thursday.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/68182/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Mother-tongue Educated in Kirkuk Face Hard Time</title>
      <description>With the world celebrating the International Mother Tongue Day, the issue of mother-tongue education is still causing problems for many people around the world.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/67896/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Basraians Want to Eliminate Illiteracy in Their Province</title>
      <description>Basraians are happy with a decision made by the government to eliminate illiteracy, While teachers in the province considered the decision a step on the right direction, average people said that the government should move to accomplish this target by soonest.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/67895/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>545 Sahwa Fighters Hired by Wassit Education</title>
      <description>Wassit Education Department hired 545 of the province’s tribal sahwa (awakening) fighters as part of the steps to achieve national reconciliation.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/67766/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Al- Ajili / Cooperation with Hawaii University</title>
      <description>Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Abd Thiab al- Ajili has confirmed that Iraqi Higher Education is looking forward to expand the scopes of cooperation with the international universities in aim of making use of their expertise in developing the educational sector and other institutions...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>$6m Educational Compound in Arbil</title>
      <description>An educational compound will be set up in Arbil City at a total cost of nearly $6 million U.S. dollars, an official statement said on Monday.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/66764/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Education Minister in Kurdistan, Iranian Consul Tackle Academic Relations</title>
      <description>The minister of education in Iraq’s Kurdistan has discussed with the Iranian consul in the region means of boosting bilateral relations and exchanging academic expertise.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/66651/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq, Turkey Consider Cultural, Scientific Cooperation</title>
      <description>Iraqi Minister of Higher Education &#38; Scientific Research Abad Dhayyab al-Ojaili discussed with Turkish President Abdullah Gul in Ankara on Friday means to further cultural and scientific cooperation between the two sides, the ministry’s information director said on Saturday.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/66650/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 08:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Over ID21bn to Renovate Iraqi Universities</title>
      <description>The Ministry of Finance has allocated more than 21 billion Iraqi dinars to renovate the academic departments in Iraqi universities.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/66457/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Britannia College Helps Kurds Connect to the World in English</title>
      <description>Britannia College of English works to meet the demands of Kurdish people to master the English language</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/66237/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Karbala Wants More Money for New Schools</title>
      <description>Karbala province wants to get more money to build new schools.

“There are certain requirements for the educational process to succeed,” Abdulhameed al-Safar, the Karbala education director, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on Saturday.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/66186/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>Higher Education Holds an International Conference in Baghdad</title>
      <description>Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research resolves to hold an international conference in Baghdad in order to get acquainted with the international experiences to put it into developing Iraq's Higher Education Ministry.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/65818/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>British Council Allocates $4.8m to Refurbish Iraqi Universities</title>
      <description>A major project on partnership and cooperation between British and Iraqi universities was announced in London under the name of DelPHE, to be financed by the British side with £3 million ($4.876 million), according to an official at the Iraqi Kurdistan official on Saturday.</description>
      <link>http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/65721/refid/RSS-education-11-03-2010</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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