وتارى دەستبەكاربوونى سەرۆكى نوێ زانكۆى كۆيە

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,

I welcome Dr. Yousif Goran, the KRG Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Here, without any reference to ranks, I want to say that I feel very impressed and I am indebted to you all, for being present here in this ceremony. I hope I deserve your enthusiasm.

I welcome all the guests and attendants of the ceremony.

On this occasion, I also want to congratulate our Kurdish people on the great victories it has achieved in Kobane.

Today coincides with the complete liberation of Kobane .

First of all, I would like to thank all those who supported and encouraged me to take up this post, I also seize the opportunity to direct my thanks to those who, to some extent, adopted a critical view or had reservations about the post being assigned to me. I hope their comments have been of benefit to me in widening my perspective and my ability to perform my task since I find myself responsible for everyone in the university. I assure you that from today onwards, I will do my best so that we will work as one team.

I would like to remind you that I had the honour of being present at the meeting where the final decision about establishing Koya University was made in the presence of our great uncle his Excellency Mam Jalal (May Allah bless him with better health), and Comrade Mr. Kosrat and other personalities who, thank God, are still alive except for the late Dr. Mohemmed Gaznayi.

His Excellency Mam Jalal, dedicated his own place of living to become the place where work on Koya University started. Therefore, in working in this university, I feel indebted to the trust given to me that after more than 11 years, I am assigned the task of running this university.

Dear attendants,

The university is the most important institution for knowledge, science and education; it is the source of creating experts and skilled and experienced persons, it is a pulpit for exchanging views and directions, an educational institution to develop individuals with special identity, mentality and opinion. The university must be a place for dealing with the political, economic, social and cultural problems which face the society. It must be a center for research, scientific studies, statistics and censuses.

However, unfortunately, our universities have not been able to play such an important role due to many factors, which I am, here on this occasion and in your presence, not able to mention them all, but hope that we will be able to deal with them together in the future.

Dears, there seems to be a kind of unhealthy relations between students and teachers (i.e. there is a kind of cold war) which have had a negative impact on the education process.

Also lack of academic relations with the advanced and important universities of the world is another factor affecting the advancement of our universities, in addition to lack of encouragement to conduct scientific research and lack of care and attention to the scientific research centers.

The university has become a place for obtaining certificates rather than a scientific and academic institution. Therefore, from now on, the responsibility of the university must not only be granting certificates.

The process of employment and creating work opportunities are full of defects and drawbacks which are having a negative influence on the students' psychology during their education.

In general, it seems that the university does not play any role in tackling the problems of society. The university must have a role in changing the student's mentality and directing their thinking towards the right path and also in making considerable change in their educational level. If a student's personality does not undergo any change during his university life, how can we have hope that this student will have influence on society?

Therefore, the universities must, from now on, be changed from mere decorations to reality. The cultures and behaviours that belong to the outside of the university must not be transferred into its inside. The university must from now on be more effective in changing the negative reality of the outside of the university (As the left wing and the Marxists considered the workers' class as the center of revolution and change, so the new world and globalization consider the university a center that carries the banner of change for a more prosperous modern life.

In the end, I would like to give my thanks to all the attendants, all the teachers, all the staff and students who seriously made attempts to advance the education process in Koya University. I would also like to give my thanks to Dr. Saeed Salih who has been the acting president of the university during the last period and to the members of the University Council and all the staff in charge of the different units of the university who, during the last few months, worked hard and tried to start the new academic year successfully and put the process back on track, which I'm sure it has required a lot of efforts from them.

I will try my best with my colleagues in the university to follow the principle of seeing our defects before those of others. To do this, I ask for help and support from all as this is a big responsibility which I will only be able to undertake with your help and support.

May God help us all. Welcome again. Thank you very much. 27/1/2015