A PhD might follow, but his ultimate goal is to return to his home university and take up a teaching post. Meanwhile, he loves life in Huddersfield and the teaching is really good, he says.
Soma Abubakr, aged 25, is shortly to embark on an MA course at Huddersfield, studying the teaching of English to speakers of other languages. In preparation, she has taken a pre-sessional course in English – but Soma had a head start, because she already has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of her home city of Sulaimani.
That is where she will return after her scholarship-funded postgraduate year in the UK, and will take up teaching duties in Sulaimani. One of the keys to the prosperity of Kurdistan will be to increase English language skills among the population, she says, and she will play a role in this.
She is enjoying life in Huddersfield, but feels some homesickness, especially as her husband has stayed behind in Kurdistan, where he is works as a communications engineer, although a visit to the UK is planned.
Meanwhile, says Soma, the opportunity to meet and have wide-ranging discussions with the two top-level politicians from Kurdistan was a very valuable one.
(Source: KRG)
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