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Dozens of Jobs and Internships Offered to UKH Students at Career Fair

UKH Career Development Centre (CDC)’s organised Career Fair provided dozens of jobs and internship opportunities to UKH students on Sunday 29 May 2022. 25 companies, organisations and head hunters from the public and the private sector participated in the career fair which was sponsored by Nass Wallet and Rudaw Media Network sponsored the media coverage […]

May 29, 2022

World Earth Day at UKH              

The University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) hosted an event titled “World Earth Day” on 19th May 2022 and brought together diplomats, KRG officials, academics, students and activists together to discuss the current challenges and offer solutions to global warming and environmental disorders in the region. The event was organised by UKH’s Centre for Environmental Studies […]

May 19, 2022

Award Ceremony: UKH’s Honorary Degree of Doctor of Philosophy to Khusraw Jaff

The University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) awarded prominent Kurdish author and architect Khusraw Jaff honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) in a grand ceremony on May 9th 2022. A Peshmerga, politician, novelist, translator, poet, artist, Sufist, architect, sculptor, and necklace designer, Khusraw Jaff is one of the greatest artistic personalities in the country. […]

May 9, 2022

UKH to Award an Honorary Degree to Prominent Kurdish Author, Khusraw Jaff

The University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) will award the honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Honoris Causa) to prominent Kurdish author Khusraw Jaff on Monday 9 May 2022. Khusraw Jaff is a prominent author, historian, artist, architect and designer who was born in the district of Kalar in 1945. Jaff enrolled in elementary school in […]

May 5, 2022

Completion of UKH English Language Training Programme for Peshmerga Officers

The 10-week English language training programme for Peshmerga officers launched in January 2022 came to an end on April 26, 2022. The training programme was hosted by the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH), in conjunction with the British Consulate General in Erbil (BCGE) and KRG’s Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs (MoPA). The participating officers received certificates […]

April 26, 2022

The First Annual Presidential Lecture at UKH

Annual Presidential Lectures are new to public and private universities in the Kurdistan Region. UKH President Bill Rammell initiated and delivered the first of such a lecture in the region on April 6 2022, titled “Populism: Its Origins, Genesis and Analysis: Has Populism Peaked?”. The event was planned in such a way that included various […]

April 7, 2022

The Way Forward for Kurdistan

The first man in charge of Iraq after toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime on April 9th 2003, retired US Lieutenant General Jay Garner visited UKH for second time after 12 years and delivered a seminar titled “The Way Forward for Kurdistan”. Garner was on the ground in the Kurdistan Region after the uprising and the mass […]

March 30, 2022

Ex-Bedfordshire v-c wants to put Kurdistan on ‘global HE map’

This article was originally published on the Times Higher Education website. By Pola Lem After holding a series of ministerial posts in the Westminster government and a seven-year spell as vice-chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire, Bill Rammell could be forgiven for wanting to put his feet up. But on a Wednesday evening in mid-January, Mr Rammell was instead waiting out […]

February 8, 2022

UKH and SEED Foundation Sign MOU to Improve the Students’ Experience

As part of improving the student experience, the President of UKH, Bill Rammell, and the SEED Foundation President and Executive Director, Sherri Kraham Talabani, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to improve the awareness and understanding of students in Psychosocial Support (PSS) awareness. Starting February 2022, qualified staffs from SEED will structure and guide […]

January 25, 2022