MINORITY STUDENTS AND INTEGRATIONAL ISSUES IN AN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN KURDISTAN

Over the last few decades, professionals have searched for generalized strategies and techniques to integrate students, but most often these studies have not examined the specific needs of minority students, who are segregated on ground of religion or cultural issues practiced by them, making them different from the majority others. These students often belong to different religious ethnicity and they make up a much smaller percentage and as a result, their experiences and needs at times gets lost and goes undetected. This article intends to investigate the gap between the ideal level of integration and the existing level between diverse groups of students and offers solutions towards bridging the gap in an international university in Kurdistan, northern Iraq.