Iraq’s Kurdish region is developing its own education system separate from the rest of the country, hampering students’ ability to learn and their higher-education opportunities, reports The Kurdish Globe. While most of the country’s schools teach in Arabic, the Kurdish language is being used for Kurds. And in Kurdistan, the school year comprises two semesters, each ending with final exams. In the Iraqi system elsewhere, students take one set of final exams at the end of the year. The differences mean that Kurdish students are having trouble applying to Iraq’s universities. The Kurdistan Regional Government is trying to resolve the problem.