Shafaq News/ On Wednesday, the Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzaniofficially launched the new school year by ringing the bell at Najiba KhanJalil Zada school in the town of Koye (Koysinjaq), Erbil Governorate.
Around 1.8 million students, both boys and girls, returned to classroomsacross the Kurdistan Region. The educational workforce for this academic yearincludes 118,000 permanent teachers and 38,000 contracted educators.
Najiba Khan, after whom the school is named, was the daughter ofrenowned religious leader Jalil Zada from Koye. She became the first girl inthe Kurdistan Region to attend a co-educational school nearly 100 years ago, asignificant milestone in the region's educational history.