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The Leader praises Iranian teachers’ efforts, urges govt. to address their issues

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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei praises Iranian teachers for their non-stop hard work to educate the country’s young generation despite all the problems facing them, urging the government to address their hardships.
Education

Official: Iran universities hosting 40k Afghan students, ready to admit female ones

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The Iranian deputy minister of science, research and technology says the country is hosting around 40,000 university students, and that three Iranian universities are ready to give admissions to female Afghans, who are denied of the right to higher education at home.
Local

National Teacher’s Day marked in Iran

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Iranian students, teachers, and officials marked Teacher’s Day in Iran on Tuesday.
Local

Iran Intelligence Ministry: Poisonings at schools not caused by toxic agents, escalated after riots abated 

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Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has issued a detailed statement about the recent poisoning incidents at a number of schools in the country saying they were not caused by toxic agents.
Local

20 female students admitted to hospital with respiratory symptoms in Tabriz, Iran

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The head of the Emergency Department of Iran’s East Azerbaijan Province says 20 female students were admitted to a hospital in the provincial capital Tabriz with respiratory symptoms.
Education

Iran education minister resigns over teachers’ salaries crisis

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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has accepted the resignation of Minister of Education Yousef Nouri following the delay in the payment of the teachers’ salaries, and appointed Reza Moradsahraei as the caretaker minister.
Incidents

Poisonings happen again at several schools in Iran 

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Poisoning incidents on Saturday continued at girl schools in parts of Iran.
Incidents

Iranian Interior Minister: No clues yet as to what happens in girl schools, no arrests made

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Iranian Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi says he has received no reports yet that a toxic substance was used to poison students in different cities.
Local

3 arrested in connection with poisoning of students in Iran

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An informed source has told Iran’s Fars News Agency that three people have been arrested in connection with the poisoning of school girls in several Iranian cities. Unconfirmed reports say the poisoning could be a false flag operation by a counterrevolutionary group.
Education

Iranian universities ready to admit Afghan students after Taliban ban

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Three gender-specific universities in Iran have expressed readiness to enroll hundreds of Afghan women after the Taliban barred female students from attending private and public universities in Afghanistan.
Foreign Policy

Iranian Foreign Ministry says Afghan girls allowed to study in Iran 

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An aide to Iran’s foreign minister says Afghan girls can study at Iranian universities through distant learning system and using the existing infrastructure in Iran.
Education

Iranian students start new school year

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The new school year in Iran started earlier on Saturday after two years of coronavirus pandemic that closed educational centers.
Local

New chapter in Iran’s brain drain: ‘migrating university professors’

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An Iranian academic official says during the past several years Iran has witnessed one of the fastest human capital flights in the world, losing its highly educated and skilled manpower mainly to sanctions-hit frail economy.
Education

Education minister: Iran scrambling to meet immigrants’ needs

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Iran has earmarked more funds to fit the immigrant students, whose number is getting close to the one million mark, into the country’s education system, the Iranian education minister says.
Education

Data show sharp rise in tendency among Iranian students for migration

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New data show the age of migration in Iran has witnessed a sharp decline over the past decade, with a growing tendency among school students for leaving the homeland.
Education

Official: 60,000 Iraqi students studying in Iranian universities

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The Iraqi cultural attaché in Iran has announced that thanks to reinforcing bilateral relations between Iran and Iraq, 60,000 Iraqi students are studying in Iranian universities.
Education

Iranians, mostly youths, sitting national university admission exam

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Hundreds of thousands of Iranians, mostly youngsters, have been taking part in the national university entrance exam, a highly-competitive test that applicants need to pass to gain admission to higher education institutions in Iran.
Education

Iranian schools abroad seeing significant drop in number of students

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A senior Iranian education official says the number of Iranian schools in other countries has plunged from 40,000 eleven years ago to around 8,600 now.
Local

Official: 527k foreign children study in Iranian schools

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At least 527,000 foreign children, mostly Afghans, study in Iranian schools. According to a senior Education Ministry official, others include school children from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iraq, and a few other countries.
Education

Iran celebrates Teachers’ Day

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Iran is celebrating its national Teachers’ Day on Monday with special ceremonies held at schools and educational institutions across the country to pay tribute to teachers.
Local

Teachers hold peaceful rallies in Iran

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A number of Iranian teachers on Sunday held peaceful rallies in some provinces across Iran to demand higher salaries and better working conditions. The protesters said they will not retreat from their rights.
Education

Iranian teacher goes to school every day on boat

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An elementary school teacher every day goes to school on a boat to teach children of an underprivileged village in iran’s Khuzestan province.
Education

In-person education to resume in ìran following Covid retreat

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Iran's Ministry of Education has said the presence of students in classrooms is not optional and all schools are obliged to resume in-person teaching on Farvardin 14th (April 3rd).
Education

University professors, students urge return of Reza Omidi

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870 university professors, students and other staff of the University of Tehran have written to the university’s chancellor to demand the return of Reza Omidi, the recently-sacked assistant professor, to the university’s Faculty of Social Sciences.
Education

Iran marks national university student’s day in ceremony in Tehran

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Iran is marking the National University Student’s Day in a ceremony with the presence of President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi.
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