
The Council of Al-Karkh University of Science holds its regular session
The Council of Al-Karkh University of Science held its regular session on Sunday 31/3/2019 chaired by the President of Al-Karkh University of Science Dr. Thamir A. Hassan, in the presence of the vice- president of the University for administrative and scientific affairs, the deans of the colleges and the vice-deans for administrative affairs.
The meeting discussed the directives of His Excellency the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the advisory committee on the governmental program, the application of the credit system, classifications of universities as well as the twinning system with foreign universities. The steps taken to register Al-Karkh University of Science in the Russian Classification, RUR, were discussed to complete the entry requirements in this classification, with the reference to the need to activate the twinning program with the German University of Darmstadt on the basis of continuous cooperation between the two universities and to focus on the Department of Geophysics at the university. The session also included the discussion of the possibility of holding a twinning program with the Shiga University in Japan, with regard to the possibility of establishing College of Data Science in the coming year.
The President of the University stressed the need to complete the required requirements for the establishment of the Forensics Department in relation to the establishment and providing laboratories during this year and next year with the necessary equipment. He also stressed the need to complete what is required to prepare the credits of the first year and the first level to ensure the smooth flow of their completion during the coming year. He also urged the faculty members to publish at least a paper in one year in response to the document of the supervision and evaluation department based on the the approval of the honorable minister.
The university president also stressed the need to prepare a curriculum for the fifth anniversary of the founding of Al-Karkh University of Science and it should include a scientific exhibition in each college that will deal with the students' and teachers' productions and present the potentials available in all departments to make it a yearly occasion. Iraq to attend and sets this day to be a day of the University to be celebrated annually.
The meeting also discussed the possibility of holding a meeting with the top students of all the departments and stages for setting up the mechanism of establishing an association between them to be the nucleus to put the model in the position of leadership and to make university top student the head of the association.
The meeting discussed the possibility of opening the university theater after the success of the cinema club which was founded at the university to form a basic nucleus at the university theater; the study of establishing this theater should be presented to the vice-president of the university for administrative affairs and to students affairs department to study the possibility of providing the necessary equipment for the scenography of theater.