The Kurdistan government has initiated a scholarship programme to enable overseas study by young Kurds. Both Dr Saaed, a key adviser on education, and Dr Sherwani, the Director General of Scholarships and Cultural Relations, play a prominent role in the scheme.
Among the cohort of Kurdish students studying at the University of Huddersfield is Dr Sherwani’s son, Dara Sherwani, aged 25. He is adding an MSc to an already impressive roster of degrees – a BSc in software engineering from the university in his home city of Erbil, and an MBA from a Lebanese university.
Dara found that the University of Huddersfield offered a Masters degree in E-business that ideally complemented his existing qualifications and he has completed a thesis on the integration of online shopping and social media.
“Facebook would become a place where people could shop and socialise at the same time!” he says. He might develop the concept for PhD research, and will then decide which direction his career will take.
He has enjoyed his year in Huddersfield. “I love this town. It is small, but easy to live in and really multi-cultural.”
Dara predicts a bright future for university education and research in Kurdistan when the students who have been in the UK under the scholarship scheme return home.
One of them will be Sarwar Saeed, aged 31, from the Kurdish city of Sulaimani, where he took his first degree. After being awarded a scholarship, he came to the UK and is completing a course on English language skills at the University of Huddersfield. In January he will embark on study for the MSc in Network Technology, aiming to broaden the base of his computer skills and knowledge.
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