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Leaving message: SABIS University, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan

 
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Adrian Evitts



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:21 am    Post subject: Leaving message: SABIS University, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan Reply with quote

Teaching at SABIS University in Erbil has been the greatest pleasure and privilege of my life; it has also been the hardest job that I have ever done.

Teaching here has been the greatest pleasure because I have been privileged to command the trust of many of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan � be they Kurds or Arabs, Muslims or Christians, or others. This is a very broken culture in need of healing, and the existing educational system reflects that fact; but it is also a very rich culture blessed with great diversity of its peoples and traditions, and the hospitality extended to me as a teacher has been more generous than any I have ever previously known. The people of Iraqi Kurdistan deserve the best. If all of us � woman and man; student and teacher; master and servant; big and small - show enough skill, dedication and humility � we can have the best here.

Teaching here has been the hardest work because a commitment to true excellence in university education is a relatively new idea in Iraqi Kurdistan. There are many problems � cultural and organisational, as well as educational. There is always room for improvement in any human endeavour. If all of us � woman and man; student and teacher; master and servant; big and small - show enough skill, dedication and humility � we can have the best here.

I wish SABIS University and Iraqi Kurdistan well.

[And just so you know that I am real - warts and all - you can check out http://youtu.be/YTfdSVJojKc ]
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babur



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Location: Dammam, Saudi Arabia

PostPosted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:10 am    Post subject: SABIS INC. Reply with quote

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Teaching at SABIS University in Erbil has been the greatest pleasure and privilege of my life; it has also been the hardest job that I have ever done.

Teaching here has been the greatest pleasure because I have been privileged to command the trust of many of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan � be they Kurds or Arabs, Muslims or Christians, or others. This is a very broken culture in need of healing, and the existing educational system reflects that fact; but it is also a very rich culture blessed with great diversity of its peoples and traditions, and the hospitality extended to me as a teacher has been more generous than any I have ever previously known. The people of Iraqi Kurdistan deserve the best. If all of us � woman and man; student and teacher; master and servant; big and small - show enough skill, dedication and humility � we can have the best here.

Teaching here has been the hardest work because a commitment to true excellence in university education is a relatively new idea in Iraqi Kurdistan. There are many problems � cultural and organisational, as well as educational. There is always room for improvement in any human endeavour. If all of us � woman and man; student and teacher; master and servant; big and small - show enough skill, dedication and humility � we can have the best here.

I wish SABIS University and Iraqi Kurdistan well.

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The author is either employed by SABIS or extremely gullible. SABIS are widely regarded as being a cult. Their teacher training can best be described as indoctrination. SABIS puppets (teachers) are forced to dance to the music or leave the stage. "sabis stinks" a website set up by former teachers, was taken down. SABIS is an "organisation" not an educational institution.
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crewmeal1



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Judging by that video I'd say they were more than good friends!!
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veiledsentiments



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Location: USA

PostPosted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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a commitment to true excellence in university education

In all my years here and in the Middle East, it is the first time I have ever heard a phrase like that in a post related to Sabis. Laughing

But, the sentence around it does seem to carefully not actually claim that Sabis is delivering such a thing.

VS
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scot47



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

SABIS has a poor reputation
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DedicatedTeacher



Joined: 11 Dec 2010
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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 5:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I could get real nasty here, but I will withhold. If it sounds overly positive about SABIS it is probably propaganda. SABIS will promote people for writing stuff like this. That is all I will say.
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madrileno



Joined: 19 Aug 2010
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Location: Salalah, Oman

PostPosted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Notice the OP only made one post.... And that was to post a glowing account of SABIS accompanied by a YouTube video praising the place.

Definitely an advertisement.
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safarer30



Joined: 12 Jul 2009
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:55 pm    Post subject: dealing with a convicted pedophile Reply with quote

Sabis Erbil is a bit busy these days: http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2012/11/state6616.htm
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