ISHIK UNIVERSITY aims to give high quality education with the ultimate technology, to the new generations who are the hope of the country. The majority of the academic staff of ISHIK UNIVERSITY are international lecturers. Ishik University has been established in 2008 with the permission of the Ministry of Higher Education. Fezalar Educational Institutions has been established in Erbil in 1994, by Turkish and Iraqi investors and educators, during the civil war in the region. In 1994, the Institution started with Ishik High School in Erbil. The institution has been aiming to establish schools with high standards that provide local and universal values. The company also aims to provide education to everybody regardless of their belief, ethnicity, social status or political ideas. Ishik High School made itself a good reputation in the region. After that, the new schools in Suleimania, Salahaddin Ayyubi Boy Schools and Suleimania Girl Schools were started. During the 15 years, new High Schools and Primary Schools were opened in Erbil, Suleimania, Kirkuk and Dohuk as part of Fezalar Educational Institutions. In 2007, the institution developed the idea of a private university with the support of students’ families. In 2008 the KRG Ministry of Higher Education approved the new university opening application. The university started with an opening ceremony in 2008 with the attendance of KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, parlamentarians, bureaucrats, Consul General of Turkey in Mosul, and parliamentarians from Turkey. This opening has also started a serious rapprochment between Turkey and the region. Education is being conducted temporarily on the ground floor of the Ishik Private High School which is also the first school of Fezalar Educational Company. For the first year students were accepted only to the English Prep. For the 2009-2010 academic year students have accepted to five bachelors degree programs and 8 English Prep. The university has been expanded by converting one of the unused workshops of the Industrial School into the College of Education. Some other parts of Ishik High School has also been transfered to the university. In 2010-2011 academic year nine bachelors degree programs will be available. Ishik High School will move to its new building leaving the current building completely to the university. For the Masters Degree programs, the application to Higher Education Ministry is being awaited to be processed. These programs will be opened with the cooperation of Zurich Technical University and Epoka International Albanian University. Negotiations for further international cooperations are being conducted. For our new university campus, 103,000 square meters of land has been allocated in downtown Erbil near the One Hundred Meter Avenue, close to Mosul highway and preparations for the campus project have started. The construction is planned to be completed as soon as possible. The current building is not sufficient for the 2011-2012 academic year so at least some of the new buildings are aimed to be completed by that time.
