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22 Technium Soc. Sci. J. 143 (2021)
Increasing the Number of Universities and Current Situation of Labour Market in Higher Education

handle is hein.journals/techssj22 and id is 144 raw text is: Technium Social Sciences Journal Vol. 22, 143-151, August, 2021 ISSN: 2668-7798 SCA CE U AL www.techniumscience.com Increasing the number of universities and current situation of labour market in higher education Mahdi A Qader, Ferman Hasan2 1 2Psychology Department, Faculty of Arts, Soran University, Iraq mahdy.qadir@soran.edu.igl, farman.aula@soran.edu.iq2 Abstract. In this analysis descriptive research is used, in order to illustrate a clear picture of the current situation of lebour marketing in higher education. The main aim of this review is to analyse and evaluate the current situation in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, also known as KRG (Kurdish Regional Government), in terms of higher education marketisation and employment opportunities for Higher education graduates. For this purpose. The influences of globalisation and neo- liberal ideology on the higher education sector were main points of consideration to explore the situation. Findings showed that the Kurdish government strongly follows neo- liberalism ideology in its strategies for Higher Education (H.E.) in order to move forward as a developing country. Consequently, the H.E. sector has experienced a significant expansion, especially through the introduction of private universities. However, the educational system which is in place in Kurdistan remains a work in progress. Whilst HE is considered a main priority of the regional government for developing the local young population and work opportunities are opening through foreign investors, graduate unemployment is high and remains an unsolved issue in the half public, half private university market situation. Keywords. Higher Education, Marketing, Economic 1. Introduction In the last decade, foreign investment has flowed into Kurdistan. Consequently, it has been reported to beone of the fastest growing economies on the planet, because the autonomous region possesses over 45 billion barrels of untapped oil and has an open-door policy on foreign investment (Moss, 2013). In 2014 just as an example, over five billion US-dollars were committed to Kurdish inbound investments by foreign investors, including the United Arab Emirates (Pironti, 2014). On the other hand, having a look at this total figure, it draws a picture of currently strong foreign dependency and the pressure on the Kurdish Regional Government to balance local and foreign expectations. In fact, currently, over two thousand five hundred foreign companies are operating alongside nearly eighteen thousand Kurdish companies (Ibid). Further, only in 2013 there were over five hundred ongoing economic and societal projects across three cities in Kurdistan, at a total investment of over twenty- four billion dollars (Zebari, 2013; Moss, 2013). The totality of these investment plans in Kurdistan can be evidence of the potential for a wealthy futurefor Kurdistan and for the Kurdish people. Further, half of the Kurdish population of five million are under the age of twenty, and thus they constitute the majority of the society and probably most of themneed employment opportunities and education service provision. Therefore, in recent years, a vast expansion has been made in 143

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