The Center for Development and Continuing Education at the University of Basra held a creative thinking course for college deans' assistants.

This course aims to develop university leadership, familiarize them with areas and types of administrative excellence, enhance their cognitive skills, improve their performance, and increase their knowledge of modern dimensions of creative thinking.

The course, presented by Dr. Rafif Abdul-Hafez Muhammad Taqi Al-Riahi, emphasizes the importance of creative thinking skills. It is a stimulating course aimed at acquiring a general skill, and it is necessary to hold effective training courses to help professors activate creative thinking skills in teaching by educational leaders. It also aims to develop the teaching methods used and incorporate them into the curricula by those responsible for planning and developing the curricula