Nasaq

The issue of urban growth is one of the important and modern topics that concerns researchers in the recent times as it affects the urban environment on the one hand and the effects and repercussions that migrants leave on services and the organization of the city on the other hand. Furthermore, it represents one of the negative phenomena in human interaction with the surrounding environment Therefore, the research attempts to address the problem of urban growth and the problems related to it through the migration of large numbers of people from the countryside to the city and the economic, social, urban and environmental problems caused by this population increase on the city. The research aims to study the impact of the successive urban population growth on educational services for the regions in urban areas. The research problem states that the increase in immigration or the large population growth of urban areas has a significant impact on the adequacy and efficiency of educational services. The research adopted a hypothesis which states that “the educational services located in the neighboring urban areas are able to absorb the pressures and needs generated by the immigrant population from the countryside". The importance of the study concentrates on the rapidly growing phenomenon of internal immigration, especially in the capital Baghdad, and the issues and pressure it raises on the services provided in the city. The results from analyzing deviation revealed a significant effect from the excess numbers of students in the urban areas showing that displaced pupils contributed a percentage of 85.5 towards primary education and a percentage of 61.3 towards secondary education The research concluded that the state’s inability to provide the simplest necessities of life helped increase incoming immigration to cities. The research recommended that the optimal solution to the migration problem needs a comprehensive and strategic development to combat poverty and equitable distribution of investments between rural and urban areas.