Cihan University-Erbil hosted the third international science conference on Education and Language
Under the supervision of Dr. Aram Muhammad Qadir, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, the third international scientific conference on Language and Education at Jihan University in Erbil, entitled “The Emergence of new horizons in the fields of linguistics, literature, education, and translation” began.
The conference, which began on Wednesday (1/3/2023), was attended by a representative of the Minister of Higher Education and Science Research of the Kurdistan Region and a significant number of academics, researchers, experts, and university teachers with a moment of respect for the pure souls of the martyrs.
Professor Dr. Amjad Saber Dalo, president of Cihan University Erbil, gave a speech on the occasion after welcoming the representative of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Kurdistan Region, and said: “Holding this conference is the product of efforts and activities.” The continuation of the past few months by a group of scientists, academics, and a prominent elite of our university is proud that Cihan University Erbil has now become a crucial and bright center for the process of higher education, development, thinking, inventors, and success, because, within the framework of its strategic plan, our university is constantly trying to link higher education to the real needs of community development, providing full opportunities for all students, teachers, and researchers to make their scientific efforts to achieve the highest level of science and information.
According to Cihan University’s president, the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Education play a significant role in nurturing and creating leaders. Aside from holding this important conference, Cihan University Erbil provides education to a variety of educational centers and institutions.
In another part of his speech, Professor Dr. Amjad Saber Dalo discussed the details of the conference and revealed that 116 research essays by researchers, experts, teachers, and experts in the fields of English, translation, education, and sports presented to the Conference Science Committee, as a result, 56 studies were rejected by the Scientific Evaluation Committee and 60 high-level, modern and original research was approved, including 10 outside Iraq including (Italy, the United States of America, Britain, Turkey, Qatar, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia), while others have been presented and approved at local universities in Kurdistan and Iraq.
In this scientific conference, (3) keynote speakers have been approved for the conference who came from universities in Italy and the United States.
At the end of his speech, the president of Cihan University Erbil expressed his special gratitude to all those who have worked to promote and hold this conference over the past few months, particularly each of the science and conference preparation committees. Administration and finance, media and communications, and information technology, meanwhile, thanked researchers who participated in the conference with their valuable research and enriched the conference’s themes and reaffirmed their promise that Cihan University will forever be open to scientists and academics as an important academic center to activate the scientific research movement in our country and region.
Then: Dr. Nawzad Yahya Bajir, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cihan University, gave a speech. After welcoming guests to discuss research for community development, he hoped universities would continue their scientific efforts to solve community problems.
Later, Dr. Zhala Saeed Khatat, director general of the Research and Development Office, represented by Dr. Aram Muhammad Qadir, minister of higher education and scientific research, gave a speech. In her speech, after welcoming guests, thanked Cihan University Erbil for organizing the conference and choosing the title, which is in line with the current needs and the ministry’s plan to care about language.
The representative of the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in another part of her speech talked about the importance of language and said:” language determines the identity of nations and the characteristics of people, so language has a full role, and it has an effect on introducing nations to the outside world, and for us as Kurds, the Kurdish language and the protection and development of a great trust that remains for us from our ancestors, and the inheritance of our nation, we must all be governors of it together.
Regarding the duty of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Zhala Saeed Khatat said: “Our ministry in this era of technology and rapid change has a lot of important works and initiatives to care about the Kurdish language”. Education and language are two important areas that our ministry is taking a serious stand on so that we can adapt to today’s needs and the future of the linguistic and educational changes that are taking place. In the end, the representative of the Minister of Higher Education and Science Research thanked the conference’s agenda.
At the two-day conference, 60 research will be presented by researchers on a variety of topics, in addition to three keynote speakers who will