Officials of the psychological counseling and educational guidance units in the colleges of the University of Information Technology and Communications underwent a TOT training course.
On the margin of the course, Dr. Ali Khalil, University Guidance Officer at the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, visited the Continuous Education Center to review the course’s progress, which lasted five days.
The course, which came in response to the training program of the Council of Ministers / National Security Advisory – Strategic Psychological Cell, aims to build capabilities and provide qualitative training opportunities for educational staff, and the importance of fortifying university campuses from negative phenomena and wrong behaviors and to prepare generations with a solid methodology, as a curriculum was prepared to train all the directors of psychological counseling and educational guidance divisions.
The course also focused on the role of psychological counseling and educational guidance in participating in achieving the vision and mission of education, human building, and the production of knowledge and innovation by achieving higher education and scientific research that meets the requirements of the labor market and sustainable development.
To cross-fertilize ideas and visions between Iraqi universities, a lecturer at Al-Mustansiriya University, Dr. Mahmoud Shaker Al-Maliki, contributed by giving a lecture on counseling during the course.