The department of public policy at the center for strategic and international studies at the University of Baghdad held a scientific symposium entitled “Education policy under the Corona pandemic” chaired by the head of the department with the participation of a number of researchers at the center. The lecturer Maha Qais Jaber delivered a research paper in which she discussed the consequences of Covid-19 epidemic that has spread all across the world, analyzing its negative outcomes that affected the global economic situation and the educational systems, resulting in the general closure of schools and universities during total curfew.
Then the researcher also addressed the educational process at the Iraqi level since there were very vivid effects due to the pandemic on our generations as well as the main educational policies pursued in this regard by the ministries of education and higher education to confront this situation, to determine the disadvantages of the curfew and to enhance the development of e-education in harmony with online procedures adopted worldwide. She added that a survey was conducted at the local level showing that all years of conflict have resulted in the incompetence of the Iraqi educational system, which led to the inability to upgrade the basic skills of instructors and students alike and that when examining the reading skills of the children in first grades of primary schools, we find that the majority of Iraqi students in the second and third grades did not understand the appropriate study materials for their age, concluding that these results were consistent with another survey undertaken by the UNICEF showing that only 75% of Iraqi children in primary schools and less than 50% of pupils of the secondary schools had actually completed their study.
