SDG 4: Quality Education

Student success is at the heart of Al-Maarif University College’s (UOA) mission, supporting every student from every background to achieve outstanding outcomes. UOA wants everyone to believe that it should be able to unlock the potential of transformational education.
By achieving inclusive and quality education for students will reinforce the belief that education is one of the most effective and proven vectors of sustainable development. Al-Maarif University College ensures that all girls and boys will have fair education. It also aims to provide equal access to affordable vocational training, eliminate gender and wealth gaps and ensure universal access to quality higher education.

Library, Open Resources, and Learning Lab

The library of Al-Maarif University College has been an active participant in influencing the strategic direction of open education to students and local society. The academic staff who have selected open resources for their courses have saved students a cumulative total of approximately $200,000. The digital Learning Lab is the primary free learning resource for facilitating student success. This is to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to sustainable development.

Open Scholarships

Al-Maarif University College is committed to driving an enterprise-wide roadmap for progression toward open scholarships and has adopted a position statement to enrich communities by elevating educational, scientific, and artistic knowledge underpinned by the SDGs.

Digital Education

The best innovative digital technologies for education were the focus on the partnership with EC-Council Academia (the world’s largest cyber security Enterprise).
Web-Application is another success story in terms of digital education. The application is addressed at the university website (https://uoa.edu.iq/) to provide students with new digital tech skills. All courses and materials are available on this web to facilitate easy access to their courses without any need for extra costs.

Equality

• Al-Maarif University College aims at eliminating gender disparities in education and ensuring equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples, and children in vulnerable situations.
• Al-Maarif University College substantially increases the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs, and entrepreneurship to ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
• Al-Maarif University College builds and upgrades education facilities that are young disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, nonviolent, inclusive, and effective learning environments for all.

Quality Educators

Al-Maarif University College substantially aims at increasing the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least-developed countries and small island developing states. Many qualified lecturers have been consulted and employed to the best of the students to be highly equipped.