Today, Tuesday 7th March, 2017, A meeting that held at the Presidency Hall at Koya University by the Director of the Quality Assurance and Curriculum Development  (Prof. Dr. Salah I. Yahya) with the Faculties QA Officers and the Department QA Coordinators to Discuss finalizing the steps needed to announce Koya University as a Smart University in June 2017. Prof. Yahya presented the complete e-system at Koya University and explain the new role of the academic staff to be engaged fully with system.

On 14th Feb. 2017, a seminar entitled "University Rankings: How Important Are They?" has been presented by Prof. Salah I. Yahya. The seminar was presented to all Koya University academic teaching staff members. The President of Koya University (Dr. Wali Hamad), the two vice presidents (Dr. Hairad Lashukry and Dr. Saeed Salih) and the Deans of Faculties were attended the seminar too. The seminar presented the e-process of Koya University to achieve a quality teaching/learning objectives. Moreover, the seminar presented the updated version of the Webometrics ranking list with deep analysis to Koya University scores.

Today, March 7th, 2016, Dr. Salah I. Yahya had a workshop with Dr. Sherwan N. Kafoor (MHE) and Dr. Kanaan Hamagharib (Charmo University) where the new National University Ranking platform has been presented and launched.

The Director of the DQA,the Dean of FENG, the head of DSWE. the TQA-FENG Officer and the CD-Officer at the FENG had a meeting in Feb. 18th, 2016 at the FENG-KoyaUniversity with the UNESCO Delegation. The meeting was about evaluation the UNESCO participation to Koya University scinetific program and how the next stage of collaboration will be. A presentation by the Dean of the FENG and the Director of the DQA were submitted during the (3) hrs meeting.

On Monday, 25th, Charmo University invited the Director of the DQA at Koya University to present a smeinar about the experience of the DQA/Koya University in designing and implementing the e-QA system using Google Apps for Education.

On Thursday, 21st the director of the DQA at Koya University (Dr. Salah I. Yahya) presented a seminar to all the University TQA officers/coordinators in presence of the President of Koya University and the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. The seminar entitle "Road-Map to Achieve the TQA Scoring and Better Ranking in 2016"

On December 14th, a seminar was held by the DQA and presented by Dr. Salah I. Yahya for the University academic-staff. The seminar title is "e-TQA initiative at Koya University; The step towards real change in the concept of Quality in Kurdistan Universities". The President of Koya University and the Vice presented were attended the seminar. Both Dr. Wali and Dr. Dilan had a speech before and after the seminar.