Ammon News - President of Yarmouk University, Islam Massad, on Tuesday met with the Head of the Kuwaiti Cultural Office at the Kuwaiti Embassy in Amman, Hmoud Al-Qash’an, and Kuwaiti Cultural Attaché, Mohammad Al-Jarallah, for a discussion on ways to enhance scientific and academic cooperation between the two sides.

Massad lauded academic ties between the university and the Kuwaiti Cultural Office in Amman, and said he looked forward to enhancing these ties to achieve common interests, expressing the university's readiness to receive more Kuwaiti students wishing to enroll in its various faculties, academic programs and graduate studies.

He pointed out that Kuwaiti students constitute the highest percentage of the number of Arab and foreign international students studying at Yarmouk University, at 1,013 students. Together with their fellow Jordanian, Arab and foreign students who have more than 45 nationalities around the world, they form a panel of global cultural diversity on the university campus.

Massad noted that the Faculty of Medicine at Yarmouk University is distinguished by a modern academic study plan that keeps abreast with the latest scientific and medical developments, especially since it has international accreditation, and its students undergo clinical training in various public and military hospitals.

He also expressed the university's readiness to cooperate with the Kuwaiti Cultural Office with regard to correspondence and official communications, in order to turn it into electronic transactions via a specific mechanism that is arranged and agreed upon its technical specifications, in a way that achieves and serves the interests of students, and contributes to the completion of their transactions.

For his part, Al-Qash’an reaffirmed the Kuwaiti Cultural Office’s keenness to consolidate and strengthen the relationship with Yarmouk University and build on it, lauding the university’s cooperation with the Cultural Office in following up on Kuwaiti students enrolling in its various faculties and programs, and implementing extracurricular programs that contribute to enhancing their positive social interaction with their colleagues inside campus.

Al-Qashaan added that the Kuwaiti Cultural Office is looking forward to opening new horizons of scientific and research cooperation with Yarmouk University, exchanging professors, and adopting joint research projects by benefiting from the support provided by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences for such programs and projects.

Al-Qasha'an had met with a group of deans of the faculties where Kuwaiti students enroll, including the Dean of Scientific Research and Graduate Studies, the Dean of Student Affairs, the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs / for international students, and the Director of the Admission and Registration Department.

The meeting touched on various issues related to Kuwaiti students enrolled at the university.