Syrian - US cooperation in higher education

Syria's Minister of Higher Education Hassan Reshih received in Damascus on Sunday a delegation representing the US Consultative Group of Public Diplomacy chaired by Edward Djerjian.

The minister reviewed the ministry plan and strategy for developing the work for building the national creative abilities and finding good environment to graduates.

Reshih pointed out that the ministry developed many institutions and enhanced cooperation with several famous institutions and universities in the world. He stressed the ministry's desire to cooperate with the US Universities, make use of their expertise and to exchange programs with them.

For his part, Djerjian, underlined the necessity for developing relations of cooperation and signing agreements in addition to studying possibilities of establishment an American University in Damascus.

Reshih also received a scientific delegation of the US University of Rice. He underlined the importance of the decrees which were issued for developing teaching sector and reviewed the important achievements in this field like opening private universities and establishing institutions.

The delegation expressed the university's readiness to offer all available aid and expertise to the Syrian Universities.