Q: Why was English chosen as the language of instruction for all of the degrees?
Vali: We chose English for two reasons. First, English is the universal language of the modern social, political sciences as well as economics, management and business studies, and information technology. At present throughout the world at least 70 percent of texts in these subjects are published in English. Kurdish, and for that matter Arabic, Persian and Turkish, though highly developed literary languages, are not the language of modern social sciences. Those who teach social sciences in these languages would testify to this fact.
Secondly, the degree courses will be validated by Bradford University - a British university. There could be no grounds for academic collaboration if we do not have a common language.
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