The Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM), a Uk-based academic association, in their biannual newsletter publishes a piece of news about a workshop held on 22^nd April, 2021 by The English Department, Faculty of Education. RaAM is an international association, each two years they arrange a conference in a different country which hosts prominent figures in the fields of stylistics, discourse analysis and metaphor studies.

jindex, the unique search engine application for the indexed journal that launced by Koya University updated its databse. The new update includes the new Edition of WoS- Journal Citation Report (JCR) with new Impact Factors for July-2021 Edition. The deirectorate of Quality Assurance at Koya University launched designed and programmed the jindex application, a smart search engine web-application.

The latest report of InCites  citation-based research analytics tool of Web of Science (WoS) - Clarivate Anaytics shows that Koya University could collect 362 published documents in journals indexed by WoS and 1266 cittaions from indexed resources. The report shows 40% of the published researches are in Engineering and Technology, 37% in Physics Sciences, 16% in Life Science, 4% in Clinical Science and 4% in Social Science. The report shows 0.0% documents have been published in Art and Humanities. Also, the report shows that the highest number of the WoS scientific documents were published in 2020.

Webometrics announced the Twelfth Edition (July 2021 version 12.0.0 beta) of Google Scholar Citation Profile. Thirty Two Iraqi universities are listed and Twleve Universities are from Kurdistan Region. Koya University collected 3281 citations. The number of Google Scholar Citations are calulated as: Number of citations from Top 210 authors (excl. top 20 outliers). For more information about KOU Google Scholar Citation, click here.

In cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Directorate of Career Services at Koya University conducted a 5-day training project (13-17 June 2021) on social and disability inclusion for 15 Syrian Refugees and unemployed graduates in Koya District. The programme is funded by Australian Aid Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and implemented by IOM. On 17^th June, Asst. Prof. Dr. Haidar Lashkry distributed the certificates of attendance on the participants and thanked the IOM team for their great engagement towards helping disadvantaged youth.

As part of its Continuous Improvement Programme, The Faculty of Health and Science at Koya University has once again held an intensive training course for its academic staff, titled "Some Medical Laboratory Equipment". The training course was organised by the Biology and Medical Microbiology Departments, Faculty of Science and Health, from 8^th to 17^th June 2021 at the University's Presidential Hall and FSCH Genetics Research Centre. 

On 16th June 2021, Koya University participated the meeting that held in the ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Reasrach in Kurdistan Region to discuss the implementation of Bologna Process in all Kurdistan Universities. The meeting was head by Dr. Amanj Saeed (Colsultant at the ministry), Dr. Mohammed Hussein Ahmed (D.G. at the Ministry) and Dr. Hawkar Arab (Head of QA office at the ministry).

Under the slogan "Memory of the Genocide from Anfal and marshlands to Halbja and Sinjar", Koya University participates as a co-organizer in the international conference "of Peacebuilding and Genocide Prevention" that chaired by UNESCO and will be held in the University of Human Development, Sulaimani, on 15-16 December, 2021.

In the Koya University ongoing to enhance excellence across the range of academic practice by developing individuals and championing development provision across the University, an intensive training course was held for its academic staff entitled “academic ethics and integrity”. The course that started on the 19^th of May 2020, and last for seven days, was organised by Pedagogy and Academic Development Centre (PADC) in collaboration with the Department of Chemister, Faculty of Science and Health. 

With the purpose of promoting education and contributing to the development of the schools and teachers’ professional development in Iraq and KRG, an international conference on education & teaching in K-12 schools (ICET) was organised by Stirling Schools, Cambridge University Press, City & Guilds, and GEMS. This year’s ICET theme was “Empowering Education & Classroom Experience in the Post-covid World.”

ICET, which continued for two days, 17th and 18th of May 2021, brought together teacher trainers, educational experts and community leaders from the national and the international community to discuss their perspectives on certain issues related to education.

Dr. Wali Hamad, the president of Koya University, represented the university and attended the ICET opening ceremony at the VIP Reception Venue in the Rotana Hotel/Erbil.