▪️ Approving the support and development of research and scientific outputs to enhance the quality of scientific research in universities, increase the impact of research published globally, provide appropriate financial support for the research field, whether from the general budget or from higher education funds, and honor distinguished researchers in the field of advanced global publishing with a letter of thanks and appreciation from His Excellency the Minister of Education Higher education and granting the Medal of Scientific Excellence to the distinguished researcher at the level of Iraqi universities, reviewing all legislation related to research centers and related to scientific research with the aim of stimulating the research environment in universities and benefiting from Iraqi competencies in international universities through research teams and involving them in the advisory councils of universities and obliging all teachers to pay attention to scientific research being an essential part of teaching duties in institutions of higher education and scientific research.
▪️ Giving Ibn Sina University for Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences three years for the purpose of adapting the conditions of some of its joint university buildings with Al-Mustansiriya University.
▪️ Voting on preparing a draft bill to cancel the decisions of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council related to higher education and scientific research.
▪️ Formation of a higher ministerial committee to study the possibility of developing and opening public universities in the foreseeable future to accommodate the increase indicator in the number of students.
▪️ Approval of the performance of the student (Manar Khaled Haji), who was subjected to a run-over accident inside the campus of the University of Baghdad, of the exams for the first and second semesters at an appropriate time to be determined by the College of Science according to the indicators of the student’s health condition, then to perform the final exams, while the College shall compensate for the practical side during the upcoming academic year.
The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Naeem Al-Aboudi, concluded the meeting session by emphasizing the activation and organization of the work and tasks of the units of psychological counselling and educational guidance divisions, and setting scientific plans for counselling programs, activities and events, while directing all universities and formations to work in accordance with the legal powers sanctioned for them, facilitating procedures and working in a team spirit.
