Industrial Advisory Council for Employers
Employers, deans and university leaders working together on curricula, field training and graduate employment.
Our ambition: reaching total quality management.
In application of the productive-university standards, and to mark the launch of the national standards for university quality, the Industrial Advisory Council for Employers of Madenat Alelem University held its first meeting at twelve noon on Saturday 1 November 2025, under the patronage of the university president.
Believing in the importance of scientific cooperation between state institutions, and in order to raise the quality of our graduates’ academic output in line with institutional accreditation standards, the council was formed to support the development of our curricula and research. It is an important resource for strategic planning: the meeting was attended by council members chosen from active academic and professional figures across specialisations, and discussed the sound methodologies of academic work and scientific research and how best to implement them.
Council members
Prof. Dr. Faris Abdulkarim Khazal
President of Madenat Alelem University
Chair of the council
Asst. Prof. Dr. Naseer Qasim Hamoudi
Assistant President for Academic Affairs — Madenat Alelem University
Member
Asst. Prof. Dr. Abdul Fattah Sharad Yousif
Assistant President for Administrative Affairs — Madenat Alelem University
Member
Prof. Dr. Intisar Abdulghani Abbas
Dean, College of Nursing — Madenat Alelem University
Member
Prof. Dr. Ahlam Mohammed Salman
Interior Design Technologies — Madenat Alelem University
Member
Asst. Prof. Dr. Sanaa Naeem Badr
Dean, College of Arts — Madenat Alelem University
Member
Dr. Saif Mohammed Hassan
Dean, College of Pharmacy — Madenat Alelem University
Member
Dr. Muwaffaq Abbas Shukara
Vice-President of the Accountants Syndicate
Member
Eng. Arshad Sabah Hadi
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Member
Ms. Tayseer Majid Al-Qaisi
Baghdad Provincial Council — Services Committee
Member
Mr. Hussein Hadi Al-Kildar
Tribal sheikh — Baghdad Governorate
Member
Ms. Fatima Hassan Ali (student)
Student representative
Member
Ms. Khawla Saadoun Tahir
Head of the Quality Assurance Unit
Member and rapporteur
Axes of the meeting and its recommendations
- Appoint the top graduates in private universities at 20%, and a further 20% in private hospitals and centres, counting as actual service.
- Open training centres that qualify graduates for one year or more in the public and private sectors, opening the door to competition and supplying the labour market with competitive graduates.
- Encourage the private sector to open hospitals able to absorb graduate numbers.
- Launch a home health care project, run by the Ministry of Health or through private hospitals.
The council reviewed the courses and skills that should be added to current curricula, and how to link theoretical material more closely to real workplace practice and to involve private-sector representatives in periodic curriculum updates.
Recommendation: add a Communication Skills course, increase the hours of practical and summer training, and involve the private sector in updating curricula — gathering their views and raising the recommendations to the curriculum committee.
The council discussed how to widen field and cooperative training opportunities for students in private institutions, following the success of the experiment with private hospitals, and the criteria used to accept trainees and recent graduates.
Recommendation: increase the hours of summer training and involve a larger number of private hospitals, whose wider scope lets them identify outstanding students for recruitment and creates healthy competition among them.
The council looked at the recommendations it considers important for strengthening community service, and how the advisory council can help create a spirit of competition among students and graduates in serving the community.
Recommendation: hold competitions between stages and between private and public colleges, and between the private and public sectors, to encourage the best possible service to the community.