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Institutional development · Internationalisation and TNE · Iraq

University of Kufa sends two lecturers abroad, one to referee a football event in Jordan

Iraq's University of Kufa has sent two lecturers to international sporting and scientific events abroad, including a physical education lecturer refereeing a West Asian junior football championship in Jordan.

Photo: Akam Aziz / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Why it matters: Two University of Kufa lecturers, from its physical education and computer science and mathematics colleges, are taking part in international events outside Iraq.

The University of Kufa said it had sent two of its lecturers to take part in international sporting and scientific events outside Iraq.

According to the university, Ali Hussein Ali, an assistant lecturer in the College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, went to Jordan to act as an international field referee at the third West Asia junior football championship.

The university said the second lecturer sent abroad is an assistant lecturer in its College of Computer Science and Mathematics.

Editor’s view

Rachel Smith, Students and International Editor

Two assistant lecturers, from the College of Physical Education and Sport Sciences and the College of Computer Science and Mathematics, have been sent by the University of Kufa to take part in events outside Iraq, one of them as an international field referee in Jordan.

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