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| Foreign Students Flock to Iraqi Kurdish Colleges |
| 2004-12-20 |
| EFL.Kurdish students living in Iraq's neighbours are flocking to universities in the Kurdish areas to escape repression at home and to benefit from the opportunities they say the region offers. The University of Sulaimaniyah alone has so far accepted more than 110 Kurdish students from neighbouring countries, mainly Iran and Syria, under a programme that reserves five per cent of all places at Iraqi Kurdish universities for high school graduates educated elsewhere. The foreign students receive free tuition and accommodation and a 100 US dollar allowance each term... Not surprisingly, demand for university places from Kurdish students living outside Iraq look set to continue growing. "I want to study in Kurdish, to live freely as a Kurd and stay here," said one Iranian student. |
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