The Parliament intends to issue a law for Private education

Baghdad - INA 

The Parliamentary Education Committee announced on Wednesday the orientation to issue a new private education law, while noting that private colleges and universities are given three years to adapt their status, confirmed that it was studying the integration of some private universities.
 
Committee member Faras al-Muslimawi told the Iraqi News Agency(INA) that "There is a trend to repeal the private Education Law and enact a new law, since the most prominent of its paragraphs is the existence of conditions for the university environment, i.e. the opening of universities and colleges in homes and shops", stating that "the Committee will give three years to private colleges to adapt their status."
 
"Accordance with the new law , one of the conditions for a college establishment is the area where the college and university will not be allowed to have an area of 1000 m2, but 25000m2 on the city periphery, with the aim of reviving the city periphery and withdrawing the population and traffic momentum from inside the city”, "The second condition is the number of professors and scientific titles”, "the third requirement relates to the infrastructure of the halls and the provision of the educational environment within the private universities," he added.
 
Al-Muslimawi stressed "The need to have a Board of Trustees at the College that is competent to appoint the university head and the educational process", noting that "the law will also include granting financial administrative status to the investor by following up on his funds on condition that he will not interfere with the scientific aspect".
 
He stated that "The Commission will visit all private universities in Iraq and prevent certificates granting without permanence or education, but will work to ensure that private education corresponds to private education in neighboring countries","there are universities visited by the Commission, namely the University of Warth al anbeaa and al – kafeil University, which are considered to be ancient and contain high-level laboratories superior to public universities, in addition to the existence of universities which are shops and which we will not allow to continue, there's a move to integrate some colleges and be one university."
 
He pointed out that "there is a financial chapter in this law in which we address teaching rights in private universities, in order to stop the transition from private to public, where we will provide full rights from a contract over five years, a copy of which will be sent to the Ministry and another copy to the Directorate of Public Pension, and we will not allow the investor to terminate teaching services whenever he wants."
 
He stressed that "this law guarantees the right of the student to provide an educational environment, the right of the professor to provide his financial rights and retirement, the right of the employee as part of the educational environment and the right of the investor to take profits fundamentally and officially, explaining that "the law will be submitted to the presidency of the House of Representatives to vote on it after the election of a new Parliament Speaker.