Iraq, British Council announce $5m education project

Iraqi Kurdistan region's ministry of higher education and scientific research and the British Council have announced a £3m ($4.876m) project on partnership and cooperation, Aswat al-Iraq has reported. "The project, to extend to the year 2012, would envisage partnership between the two sides on projects to be proposed by Iraqi universities in the field of upgrading learning and teaching methods as well as scientific research," Dr. Kufind Shirwani, the director of the ministry's cultural relations department said.