The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research said, "Based on the reform steps that we already started, we have strived to scientifically harmonize between marketing need to human resources and the content of the syllabus of the universities. Now, our ministry has coordination with both the private and public sectors concerning the market needs to the human resources especially the ones which are vis-à-vis with the market demands to the specializations that are important to the economic development of Kurdistan Region." This speech of Dr. Yusuf Goran, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research was during releasing a speech as the representatives of Prime Minister in the ceremony of the 35th round of the students' graduations, Salahaddin University.
In the ceremony and under the moto that Peshmerga is our guarantee of Independence on 35th of June at the Erbil International Stadium started its works.
At the beginning of the speech, Dr. Yusuf Goran, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the name of the prime minister and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research congratulated the graduates and said that he was so glad to participate in the ceremony in which about 3964 graduates are given their transcripts based on their specializations. In the ceremony 210 are given their master degree and 12 ones are given their PhDs, as well. He kept saying congratulations and said that was because the brave Peshmergas that they were celebrating the ceremony.
Regarding the level of the education and creation of the scientific competition, he Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research pointed to the ranking of universities and said, "In the past year of graduation ceremony at your university, I announced that the ranking of universities have stepped a huge improvement. This year, I will proudly announce that in the year of 2015, we practiced the national ranking of university for the first time in the history of higher education. The process of ranking universities is the estimation and evaluation of the universities based on the international standards, evaluation and arranging competition among the universities. Doubtless, this process will create competition among the universities in terms of academic and scientific criterion. It is also good way of familiarity of our universities to the international standards of academic and leads to increase level of scientific and academic qualities, because the criterion in which we do use for the evaluation are the same ones which are practiced in the international level of ranking vis-à-vis of the local situation, as well. The ranking process system depends on an electronic smart system in which the Kurdistan Universities are evaluated based on 59 criterions and is done via methodology and algorithm system of math." He also said that it was awesome that Salahaddin University was in the first ranked universities among other universities in the national ranking of universities. So, I congratulate them and hope to see more development.
Also, during the ceremony of the 34th round of graduations in which was under the supervision of Nechirvan Barzani, the Presidency speech was released by Dr. Ahmad Dzayee, the President of Salahaddin University. In the speech there was thanking the families of the students and the university in which they had been able to product the graduates. Also, the speech of the committee of preparation of the ceremony and the organizer of the ceremony were released. Then, after the graduation vow, based on the demand of the college deans, the certificates were granted to students by Dr. Ahmad Anwar Dzayee, the President of Salahaddin University and the ceremony done.
At the 35th round of graduation of Salahaddin University among 5723 students, 3964 students of 14 departments graduated in the first round and 240 researchers received their master degrees and 15 ones were given the PhD certificate.
The Salahaddin University has been able to give 85000 students bachelor degree in which is consisted of 83 scientific departments and 14 different colleges in which now owns more than 25000 students of bachelors in which 11543 of them are male and 13520 of them are females. At the same time, there are about 255 researchers of master and high education and more than 150 PhD researchers are available and the numbers of its lecturers are more than 2000.