Education
The city's largest university, the University of Mosul was founded on 1 April 1967, by merging with College of Medicine which was opened in 1959.
This considered as the main interest in the government of Nineveh which consists of Mosul university and “AL_Hadbaa” college as well as the college of technology and many technical institutes. There are more than 263 high schools, 14 vocational schools: (commercial_agriculture_industry).
Eight institutes for training. 45 nursery school for kids. 1328 primary school. Mosul university is the most important university in Iraq which includes 22 colleges and 122 departments in many fields
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“His education lay like a film of white oil on the black lake of his barbarian consciousness. For this reason, the things he said were hardly interesting at all. Only what he was.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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“... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.”
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