Currently students who are living in areas under the control of the IS group have been having to travel elsewhere to take official government-sanctioned exams. They went to Kirkuk city or to areas not under the control of the IS group to take the first round of exams. The second round of exams is scheduled for October 12 and the Iraqi government decided exams would only be held in areas under its control.
Students in areas under IS group control will be allowed to take exams in government-controlled areas, says Barwin Mohammed, head of the Kirkuk provincial council’s education committee. Additionally, she says, the local council is helping them do this by helping them gain entry at checkpoints going into the city and by helping bring them to halls where they can sit exams.
Mohammed says her committee is also following up on school conditions in the IS-controlled areas and that it has extended a helping hand to teachers in those areas too.
On the other hand, there are some educators in Kirkuk who don’t care what the IS group has planned for schools under its control. The curriculum being prepared by the IS group is of no interest to anybody but the IS group, states Majid Izzat, another member of the Kirkuk provincial council’s education committee. “Any curriculum that differs from the officially approved one should not be acknowledged or accredited,” he told NIQASH.
Comments are closed.