from the chronicle of higher education:
By Ursula Lindsey
Amman, Jordan
Does the government of Iraq spend less on higher education now than Saddam Hussein did? Are most Iraqi academics suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder? Do female academics in Iraq need more support?
These and other issues were debated here this week as part of a unique conference designed to bring together Iraqi scholars in exile and education officials from the country. The meeting, “Reconstruction of Higher Education in Post-Conflict Iraq,” drew 100 Iraqi academics, along with education-ministry officials and 22 university presidents. They discussed—sometimes heatedly—the present and future state of higher education in their country.