Iraqi scientist calls to save education from superstition and deviation

Iraqi scientist calls to save education from superstition and deviation


 Baghdad / Rahim Al Shammari

The head of the Network of Iraqi Scientists Abroad "NESA" Professor Mohammed al - Rubaie, the inclusion of education in Iraq procedures reform to make it in line contemporary educational development, and criticized the teaching in schools and universities, which he described as a student accustomed to the behavior of backward Kalastjabh and submission, pointed out that educational institutions methods We need international radical solutions in high - precision information. This came on the sidelines of a scientific symposium held at the Cultural Forum Hope in Baghdad, under the slogan "Quality Education in Iraq Challenges and Solutions" attended by "term".
He called on the world and the Iraqi educational Mohammed al - Rubaie to the "save the reality of education, through reform measures series, and the need to keep pace educational and scientific development of contemporary technological progress, and the adoption of an education system that privileged to build a knowledge society competitor globally, adopting a methodology based on teaching thinking and analysis of information and interpretation skills, and allows communication and interaction between the parties to the educational process, the first education systems and linking higher global education system and international standards
of quality. " Rubaie stressed " the need to lift the painful reality of scientific decline has continued for long decades as Iraq occupied the tenth place among 16 Middle East state in the number of scientific publications and research issued."
Rubaie described the "What is facing the reality of higher education in Iraq from a contemporary and increasing challenges, you need international solutions to radical high - resolution information, starting with advanced steps and procedures are correct, in the rejection of the educational system of the methodology of conservation and memorization without understanding" no fillers "and to prevent rampant fraud in schools where Iraqi leads to the results and without privileges and without entitlement to equal opportunities, and to stop deviant behaviors such as copying and moving lectures, absenteeism and lack of commitment to the ethics of the study and teaching. "
Rubaie said the methods of teaching in schools and universities , " the student returns to the behavior of backward Kalastjabh and submission, and to accept the myth and encouraged fraud in its various forms, and create him a man unconscious and non - critical", suggesting "some solutions to save education from the current predicament including the abolition of the current division wrong in schools scientific: biological and applied, and abandon the idea of the literary division into two parts. The adoption of the division of secondary school to academic and practical and to cancel the existing colleges of education and replace it with a diploma of education to accept university graduates from all branches of science and human knowledge and to encourage Dr. P campaign doctorate to become teachers in secondary schools, rehabilitation to vocational and technical education. " And about teaching in Iraqi universities ways, he called the spring to "develop a new acceptance of a fair system that takes into account the abilities and desires of the students and not only academic achievement, and add a year rehabilitation and reconstruction of the restructuring of universities, consider the initial studies and graduate studies in a comprehensive manner." He continued Professor Rubaie, said that "levels of scientific research is facing serious challenges, where he was considered a race between the Iraqi universities to make the forefront of the global stairs will not lead to improve the quality of teaching and learning or to achieve a better reality of higher education , " stressing that " the alternative lies in the quality assurance and accreditation system academic and inviting international quality evaluation and adoption of institutions and programs , academic institutions ".
Rubaie believes "there is a crisis of confidence between higher education and faculty administration , where it is believed not to the efficiency of officials and a sense of career injustice and discrimination, and the fear of officials and caution them, regarded as nepotism and clientelism teaching staff is by getting a managerial position."
He added that the current academic environment is not suitable for teaching and learning, and the lack of relationship between the curriculum and the labor market, and the weakness of scientific interest at the faculty, and students ' interest to testify before the academic achievement of knowledge, and encourage the behaviors of deviant, and exaggerate the large number of classroom lessons, and provided the curriculum and the lack of effective training best suited to learn, pointing to " the need for reform of graduate system, which has become commonplace to see Atarih including quotations are illegal, and the dissolution of the global scientific environment, and the dissemination of false research in magazines, and the spread of the mentality of reward and books thanks to the so- called scientific achievements." He described al - Rubaie said , "What happened to education since the beginning of the seventies was the outcome of the model of authoritarian, where there is a lack the ability to independent scientific thinking and face the challenges and marginal scientific, intellectual, creativity, discovery, invention , and the fragility of the levels of activity, and the lack of importance of intellectual excellence, and increased financial and administrative corruption, and the weakness of the administrative apparatus of the state, and give the political status of administrative positions in the state, and full cancellation by the former regime of academic freedom in universities. "


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