April 16, 2004
What Higher Education in Iraq Needs Now
The second semester since the fall of Saddam Hussein has begun across a new Iraq. The 20 universities and 43 technical institutes (roughly equivalent to vocational colleges in the United States) are once again in session. Despite the hardships -- and hardships abound in this nation -- all academic institutions have been open since September. Their accomplishments are impressive; so is their need for help from abroad.
Nothing here is easy. The 1980s and '90s broke the physical
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