The rules are not only in ministry instructions. They are in Article 17 of Martyrs Foundation Law No. 2 of 2016, as amended, and some paragraphs also apply to persons covered by Compensation Law No. 20 of 2009, as amended, where the article so provides. This page gathers what concerns study and admission, and is read together with the annual admission rules issued by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research or the Ministry of Education.
Coverage itself is decided on the path in A martyr's file. The text fixes the reserved shares, the fee reduction and who bears the fee; it does not fix a standing cash figure.
The text reserves ten per cent of study places, as an exception from the conditions and instructions set for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate study, for a martyr's family, with not less than one place in each specialism, and competition for those places is among them. Ten per cent is also reserved for the families of Popular Mobilization Forces martyrs, as the article provides. The reserved share is not open admission without competition; it is a set of places for which covered persons compete.
Covered persons are exempted from the conditions of age, grade and service for admission to government and private institutes and to undergraduate and postgraduate university study inside and outside Iraq, and from the ministry's admission conditions for undergraduate and postgraduate study in the case of graduates of technical institutes and vocational education, who have a right of choice in the humanities. Covered members of a martyr's family are also exempted from the requirement of residence abroad in order to obtain a research doctorate from a recognised reputable foreign university, after obtaining a master's degree, as the text provides.
The Foundation may establish undergraduate and postgraduate programmes outside Iraq under rules issued by the head of the Foundation. That is a power to set up programmes, not automatic admission to a named university.
The article requires the study fees to be borne for persons covered by the Foundation law and by Law No. 20 of 2009, as amended, who are admitted to government universities for undergraduate evening study. Fees are reduced, by not less than twenty-five per cent, for members of a martyr's family covered by this law and by Law No. 20 of 2009, as amended, who are admitted to private universities, and ministries and entities not associated with a ministry bear the study fees of their employees who are members of a martyr's family. The text does not fix a standing cash fee; what it fixes is the percentage and the rule on who bears the fee.
The Ministry of Education is required to reserve five per cent of places in secondary schools for the distinguished and the outstanding for members of a martyr's family covered by this law and by Law No. 20 of 2009, as amended, who compete among themselves for those places.
| Rule | In short |
|---|---|
| Undergraduate and postgraduate places | 10 per cent, and at least one place in each specialism, with competition among covered persons |
| Families of Popular Mobilization Forces martyrs | 10 per cent, as stated in the article |
| Exemption from conditions | Age, grade and service, with the rules for graduates of technical institutes |
| Private universities | A fee reduction of not less than 25 per cent |
| Government evening study | Fees borne in accordance with the text |
| Distinguished secondary schools | 5 per cent, with competition among them |
The exemption set out in Article 17, paragraphs Seventh and Eleventh, of Martyrs Foundation Law No. 2 of 2016 applies to the conditions for admission to institutes and to undergraduate and postgraduate study: a covered person is exempted from the conditions of age, grade and service for that admission. Reserved places — a share of not less than ten per cent, and not less than one place in each specialism — are competed for among the eligible beneficiaries themselves. Annual admission procedures, and the college or institute's requirements for study, examination and progression to the next stage, remain governed by the university regulations and instructions in force. A person without a coverage decision does not benefit from these places merely through a kinship tie that falls outside Article 1. A person covered only by Law No. 20 of 2009 must ask whether the paragraph relied on applies expressly to persons covered by that law, or is confined to the Foundation law.
The law reserves shares of places and exempts from some conditions. The yearly organisation of central admission remains with the Ministry of Higher Education, and is read with these shares, not instead of them.
The text requires a reduction of not less than twenty-five per cent, and requires the employer to bear the fees of its employees who are members of a martyr's family. The figure therefore follows the statutory percentage and the rule on who bears the fee, not a standing cash amount.
The article reserves ten per cent for the families of Popular Mobilization Forces martyrs. How that is applied is read with the text and with the admission rules, and with The Department of Popular Mobilization Forces Martyrs.
Exemption from the grade condition is stated for admission to the institutes and programmes mentioned. Competition for reserved places remains, and a scientific body may set later practice conditions that this exemption alone does not remove.
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