The Pedagogy and Academic Development Training Centre at the University of Human Development (UHD) completed its eighth course for the second group (there were two groups in the eighth course) with a ceremony on 19th December 2023. A total of 75 participants received the completion certificate.

The UHD President handed participants the certificates and congratulated them on their achievement – attending a pedagogy course in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is compulsory for Master’s and PhD degree holders to be able to teach at higher education institutions. The duration of the course is six months, and UHD Pedagogy and Academic Development Training Centre, as a private institution, has a formal and exclusive licence and accreditation from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to open such a course.

At the ceremony, also attended by members of the university’s presidential council and the head of the Pedagogy Centre, UHD President Prof. Dr Mariwan Ahmed Rasheed reiterated the fact that UHD supports higher education in Kurdistan and as an example cited the financial sponsorship of the very first pedagogy training at HAMK Häme University of Applied Sciences in Finland for a group of public and private university lecturers. He praised the efforts of the director and instructors at the UHD Pedagogy Centre and congratulated the participants once more.