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The student, Ammar Bassem, obtained a grade of 99.4 percent in his last high school results, but even this grade did not allow him to enter the College of General Medicine, which has represented his dream and ambition since he started studying.
The student, Bassem, experienced great frustration with his family after his name appeared among those accepted into the College of Dentistry, and not general medicine, after two years of efforts and great financial sacrifices that his family incurred in providing educational supplies and the wages of teachers of “private study institutes.”
The student’s father says, “The failure of my son, Ammar, to gain admission to the college he aspires to, despite his high average, has generated great frustration for him, which forces me now to think about applying for parallel education, despite the large financial costs.”
“I will buy a degree for 25 million dinars,” the forty-year-old man adds, noting that “studying in parallel education costs five million dinars (more than three thousand dollars) for one academic year in medical school.”
The families of thousands of students complained about the results of central admission to Iraqi universities and institutes, especially those with high averages after not obtaining the medical package, or being accepted into colleges lower than what they expected to be their entitlement.
The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research announced the launch of the electronic application form for the Al-Sabahiya private government education channel. (Parallel), in public universities for the academic year 2023-2024.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education, Haider Al-Aboudi, responds, “All central admissions to public universities are carried out according to a transparent and fair mechanism, and opportunities are available to all students with high averages, and they have priority to reserve seats in the medical group in public universities.”
Al-Aboudi continues: “There is no injustice in the issue of admissions, and there is no student whose average deserves admission to a government university and is not accepted, but the matter remains optional for the applicant,” stressing that “there is overcrowding in the number of students that required the creation of a government university, 10 colleges, and 129 different scientific departments to address the issue.” "This momentum."
The speaker also refused to comment on a question about the link between raising admission rates in government medical and engineering colleges and admission to private colleges that allow those with low grades to study in exchange for high wages.
Last week, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Naeem Al-Aboudi, announced the acceptance of 245,291 male and female students in public universities through the central admission channels for the academic year 2023-2024, pointing out that 237,066 students were accepted within the central admission channel for the general and martyrs’ families channels, and 7,998 were accepted within the direct admission channel, and 227 Within the Elite channel.
According to the Ministry of Higher Education, the number of students accepted through the central admission channel in the medical group amounted to 9,333, with 4,931 students in the faculties of medicine, 2,019 students in the faculties of dentistry, and 2,383 students in the faculties of pharmacy, while the minimum limits for faculties of medicine and dentistry were 98.86. , and Pharmacy 98,43.
For her part, Amani Imad Laibi, a lecturer at Al-Mustansiriya University, explains, “Central admission is fair and does not oppress a student. These averages are the outputs of the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research distributes them only to the educational institutions available to it.”
Laibi confirms, “The capacity of public universities is limited, compared to the number of students with high grades. Despite this, the Ministry of Higher Education tried to accommodate everyone, and provided seats for the medical group in private universities and colleges free of charge for students with high grades of 97 and higher.”
The teacher at Al-Mustansiriya University believes that “the solution can be to improve and increase the quality of education in the Ministry of Education, so that the outputs are of high quality and not quantitative.”
Many graduates resort to private medical colleges or what is called parallel education due to their lack of acceptance in government colleges. Although there is no legal impediment to opening private colleges to teach general human medicine, the Medical Syndicate had previously warned against this trend for fear of graduating incompetent doctors. In addition, these colleges would produce large numbers of surplus students, and the union stated that the approval of the Ministry of Higher Education at the time to open a number of private medical colleges was in violation of a government decision in this regard.
The former Minister of Planning, Khaled Battal, revealed last year that public university education is no longer able to accommodate students graduating from preparatory school, as their numbers double every year, at a time when the share of private university education reached about 30 percent of the students accepted annually, and the goal is He is raising this percentage to 50 percent, but without compromising on achieving the scientific sobriety required for private universities.
In turn, Jihad Al-Ugaili, an academic at a private college, talks about “a basic dilemma that causes this controversy, which is appointment in state departments. If the state had the right planning and management with real development to develop the country, all scientific and humanitarian specializations would be important for the graduating student.”
Al-Ugaili adds, “The student is now thinking about a job opportunity, as medicine and its various branches, along with some sciences, have become in great demand with the limited ability of public universities to accommodate large numbers of students, in addition to the ease of exams, which gave most graduates high grades.”
He continues: "Private studies have emerged as a door for some beneficiaries in the state or a front for the purpose of investing and obtaining money, and all of these policies are paid for by the student."
The academic confirms, “The state does not have the ability to build universities or schools, and the reason is due to financial and administrative corruption and confusion in managing the education and education file, which affected the family and the student at the same time, so how can families bear large sums of money to enroll their children in a private university, especially since The difference between the rates is tenths of a degree compared to millions of dinars between the civil society and the government.”
In recent years, hundreds of private colleges with various specializations have been opened in Iraq, and they have begun to receive middle school graduates with low grades, or who wish to study a specific specialty, but their grades are lower than what is permitted in public universities.
It is noteworthy that the former member of the Parliamentary Education Committee, Riyad Al-Masoudi, confirmed earlier that the number of universities in Iraq now amounts to 37 universities, while the country’s actual need is 80 universities, which makes the deficit large.
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