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Professors and students in Iraq’s Kurdistan fear political rivalry is unraveling the fabric of their education system.
![Iraqi workers build a private school in Baghdad on April 24, 2012. The Ministry of Education announced in February that Iraq needs 6,000 new schools to absorb the current number of students, but according to the allocated budget building this many public schools will take 20 years. [AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2013101121829912734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
In the whirlwind of Iraq’s violent history, the once-powerful academic class has disintegrated.
Professors and students in Iraq’s Kurdistan fear political rivalry is unraveling the fabric of their education system.
In the whirlwind of Iraq’s violent history, the once-powerful academic class has disintegrated.