On Tuesday 29th Jan. 2019, Dr.Sirwan Hamid the Director of Quality Assurance in Cihan University Sulaimaniya, and Dr. Lway Faisal Abdulrazak Head of Ranking Committee in Cihan University Sulaimanyia were invited to attend a workshop for KRG National University Ranking in the Ministry of Higher Education and scientific research – Kurditan region Iraq.
In the workshop, five points were discussed as follow:
- Review the criteria guidelines
- Re-allocating the remaining 3 points of the “Learning outcomes” that removed from NUR criteria.
- Restructuring some Ranking sheet items.
- Discussing major concerns of Universities.
- Discussing the issues of Universities Scientific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The workshop emphasize on the importance of the workshop lies in the implementation of a new mechanism and process which will be through a platform or special website named NUR National University Ranking, www.nur-krg.net.
In addition, from now on universities in Kurdistan can upload their data to the NUR platform which is open till the beginning of September 2019.With NUR the universities in KRG are ranked according to a particular set of criteria and assigned specific weights, the total weight is (100%).
It is worth to mention that the members of NUR committee, their participation were important enough to overcome the obstacles and difficulties through the platform (NUR).
The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MHE) in Kurdistan region (KRG) of the F.R-Iraq started launching the National University Ranking (NUR) system, in June 2015, for all Universities of KRG.
The purpose of this National University Ranking in KRG is to inform Universities about the methodologies behind the KRG ranking, how far their visions meet the MHE vision, and show their potential impact.