A classroom at Soran University. Photo: Rudaw
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region- Students at Soran University majoring in Kurdish literature are concerned about their employment chances after graduation, calling on relevant authorities to create more job opportunities for the overlooked department.
The soon-to-be academics emphasize the importance of studying the mother language and the significance of its literature for the community, as they decry the scarcity of job opportunities.
"We look at those students who finished their bachelor's degree [in Kurdish literature] before us, and none of them have gone on to have a good future and they remain at home,” Wlat Idris, an undergraduate student at Soran University, told Rudaw’s, Baxtyar Qadir.
Hayni Kamal, another student majoring in Kurdish literature, said that “the government is negligent in fixing these problems, even though it is the mother tongue and the most important department in the university.”
Kurdish is taught in 10 public universities in the Kurdistan Region. Between the years 2021 till 2022, 1,688 students obtained a bachelor's degree in Kurdish literature.
Only the students with the three highest GPAs from the department of Kurdish literature are guaranteed employment in the public sector, while the rest struggle to find any jobs related to their major.
Students and teachers of the Kurdish department have several proposals for the government and the private sector to help solve the gap in the job market.
Due to a lack of job opportunities for Kurdish department graduates, fewer people are eager to apply for the department, choosing to aim for higher colleges instead or ones in private universities.
The soon-to-be academics emphasize the importance of studying the mother language and the significance of its literature for the community, as they decry the scarcity of job opportunities.
"We look at those students who finished their bachelor's degree [in Kurdish literature] before us, and none of them have gone on to have a good future and they remain at home,” Wlat Idris, an undergraduate student at Soran University, told Rudaw’s, Baxtyar Qadir.
Hayni Kamal, another student majoring in Kurdish literature, said that “the government is negligent in fixing these problems, even though it is the mother tongue and the most important department in the university.”
Kurdish is taught in 10 public universities in the Kurdistan Region. Between the years 2021 till 2022, 1,688 students obtained a bachelor's degree in Kurdish literature.
Only the students with the three highest GPAs from the department of Kurdish literature are guaranteed employment in the public sector, while the rest struggle to find any jobs related to their major.
Students and teachers of the Kurdish department have several proposals for the government and the private sector to help solve the gap in the job market.
Due to a lack of job opportunities for Kurdish department graduates, fewer people are eager to apply for the department, choosing to aim for higher colleges instead or ones in private universities.
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