University study is the most important academic years in the life of student as it represents the quintessence of its effort in pursuit of knowledge which spans over sixteen year; this importance comes from being the determinant of the student academic achievement to be qualified to find its way later on, hence the student either gets satisfied with the certificate or pursues a graduate degree.

University life itself is experiencing complex conditions not previously known to Iraqi universities, so they have been affected, especially in the capital Baghdad, with sectarian and political divisions, prompting the students to arrange in "divisional fronts" that have nothing to do with the academic process of the university.

However, operations of "systematic assassination" and "ethnic and political settlements" witnessed by the university and academic sector early in the year 2003, prompted many members of qualified academic staff to leave the country, not in search of livelihood and better financial source – as did happen in the 1990s last century due to blockade imposed on Iraq- but seeking security and personal safety when hundreds of university professors and academic cadres were exterminated, a fact that emptied the Iraqi universities from large numbers of them.

Many academic sections have been closed, while in science colleges, they have been temporarily closed for postgraduate (masters and doctorates) owing to lacking of the necessary faculty, then the Ministry has sent scholarships abroad to specialize in majors they are in need more than any others.  

At the same time, the Ministry has tended to double the faculty pays in a move to "tempt" those who have not come upon "the appropriate job" abroad, from among the emigrant and displaced professors,  to come back to Iraqi universities (without being secured as it is unable by no means to guarantee their safety).

As for the question of "delegate students", they suffer, in the courtiers to which they were sent, from irrecoverable problems with no signs of prospective solutions in the Ministry until now, most remarkably:
Monetary allowances earmarked for the student which have become no longer comparable with the wave of global high cost and rising prices, and with the indifferent Iraqi financial authorities to take that into account, and subject to their life and living conditions, some were prompted to seek "asylum" in the countries where they study.  

In addition to what others might decide when they have completed their studies if the current situations of the country continue in this condition of poor security and sectarian allocation in governmental facilities and institutions, and Iraq remained in the third rank among the most corrupt countries in the world.

In conclusion, we say:

We propose, for the sake of promoting the university studies reality parallel to those of civilized countries and keeping up with scientific global progress, to found a new stage of academic and cultural cooperation; and take advantage of European academics' desire to advance the conditions of Iraqi universities and extricate them from the worst phase they undergo, to inform the world community, and academia in particular, about the state of affairs of higher education in Iraq and mutually benefit from the academic expertise… as if by this approach we almost restore the interrupted connection, in different levels and modes, between Iraqi universities combined, and between the Iraqi university existing within its regional and international context…it is, nonetheless, recognized how much the importance of coordination is in the study of phenomena scientifically, and in drawing plans, solutions and distribution of consolidated responsibilities, and in the exchange of expertise and consultations to outline some of the work entries, and to overtake the time lost, and may potentially missed in the light of limited individual work, and its objective alternative of joint research centers among universities, and what we have mentioned of experience  exchange among their instructors…

We feel it is necessary to establish virtual or e-learning universities and create a board or directorate competent in e-learning at the Ministry of Higher Education… since e-learning will remain, in the outcome, having the prime role, at this stage, in the development of an effective and true seriousness for the higher education, and in addressing the dilemma of mounting pressures on traditional educational institutions. However, delay in e-learning recognition will play a role in adverse breakthroughs and setbacks of past accumulations, thus we may be late in facing additional complex problems not in the interest of any party but only for the side bent on expanding the cases of breeding underdevelopment and its respective instruments… we have to look seriously to neighboring and developing countries, some of which are more backward simply to mention for comparison, these countries have already entered the world of e-learning and are accelerating its benefit and investment in favor of time racing and other determinants…

From the book of Dr. Nahro Mohammad Abdul Kareem, "Iraq in the footsteps of course correction", pp. 77-79