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A&M to Host First Wave of Iraqi Students

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This fall, Texas A&M University will be host to the first of many Iraqi students participating in their country’s newest scholarship program.

Over the next five years, Iraq intends to send up to 50,000 students abroad to earn their bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees. The program will begin by sending about 500 students to England and the U.S. this fall to be trained in English before beginning coursework in their academic programs. Students will later be able to study at universities in Canada, Japan, France and Australia.

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Twenty two American universities and 21 British universities will participate, including Vanderbilt, Ohio State, the University of Cambridge and Newcastle University. A&M was asked to participate in the program through the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture of Texas A&M, which has been involved in agricultural development projects in Iraq.

“Because of these programs to help the Iraqi people develop sustainable agricultural production as an effort toward encouraging independence and security, Texas A&M is well known in the country,” Droleskey said. “As a result, the Borlaug Institute was invited by the Iraqi government to facilitate Texas A&M participation in an educational fair that was the first step of the Iraqi Education Initiative.”

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