A memorandum of understanding allows prison inmates to continue their education at the Virtual University

Damascus (ST): The Ministries of Interior, Higher Education and Scientific Research signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field of rehabilitating prison inmates and providing the opportunity to pursue their educational career.

The memorandum includes providing the opportunity for prison inmates to pursue their educationt inside the prison for the undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the Syrian Virtual University so that they can obtain an academic qualification that allows them to take their role in society after their release.

In a statement,  Major General Mohammad al-Rahmoun, Minister of Interior, indicated that the memorandum comes out of social, humanitarian and scientific responsibility and efforts to transform prisons from a role of arrest and detention to a role for reform, indicating its importance in terms of allowing prison inmates who have obtained a secondary certificate in its scientific and literary branches for this year and previous years to register at the Virtual University and get a university degree certificate.

In turn, Dr. Bassam Ibrahim, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, explained that the memorandum comes within the framework of scientific partnership between the two ministries, especially for prison inmates in order to follow up their educational attainment in the specializations available at the virtual university, whether at the undergraduate or postgraduate levels.

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