Koya University Students Participate in Cultural, Scientific and National Activity of Embassy of the Kingdom of Thailand

Students from English Language departments at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Faculty of Education at Koya University participated in an activity organized by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Thailand for cultural and scientific exchange under the supervision of Dr. Mariwan Zaher.

On Monday, September 8, 2025, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Thailand organized a cultural, scientific and national activity hosted by Cihan University in Erbil, where a number of students from the English Language departments at Koya University from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Faculty of Education participated in this activity under the supervision of Dr. Mariwan Zaher, Head of the English Language Department at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Strategic Framework

Koya University works as a leading university in Kurdistan currently within the framework of a comprehensive and responsive strategic plan with new developments in local and global society for greater impact and motivating students as valuable human capital to serve society. The first pillar of the strategic plan is dedicated to the pillar of "STUDENT SUCCESS AND EMPLOYABILITY " and the third objective "Empower Students Within and Beyond the Classroom" and the second strategy, which is committing university students to having good conversational ability in another language alongside their mother tongue before graduating from Koya University.

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Koya University (KOU) is located in the city of Koya (Koy Sanjaq) which is 1.0 hr drive to the East of the Kurdistan Region capital Erbil (Arbil, Hewlér) in Kurdistan Region of F.R. Iraq. It is on the foothills of a beautiful high mountain. Its campus has been carefully laid out to embrace the beautiful mountainous nature.

There are 4 Faculties and 2 Schools in KOU; Faculty of Engineering (FENG), Faculty of Science and Health (FSCH), Faculty of Education (FEDU), Faculty of Humanities and Social Silences (FHSS), Shcool of Physical Education (SPHE) and School of Medicine (SMED).

Also, there are two research centers; Genome Center and Malai Gawra Center. Moreover, at KOU there is an English Language Center (BELC) at KOU has been opened with the sponsorship of IREX and American embassy in Baghdad as well as with the support of Spring International Language Center of The University of Arkansas. KOU has two Scientific Journals; ARO-The Scientific Journal of Koya University, which is indexed by Clarivate Analytics (ESCI), and Koya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (KUJHSS). KOU is a proactive member of Erasmus/ Marhaba Project and Erasmus+.

KOU signed many Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) with many International Universities, e.g., The University of Arkansas (June 2015). The Lulea University in Sweden (April 2014), The University of Nottingham in the UK, The University of Buckingham in the UK (Oct 2008), Belkin University in Turkey (Sep 2009) The University of Greenwich in the UK, Cihan University-Erbil (2021) and Tishk International University (2021).

Koya University is a memebr of The Association of Arab Universities and the International Association of Universities.

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