Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 21
By Umid Niayesh - Trend:
About 400,000 Afghani, Iraqi students are being educated in Iranian schools, the Islamic Republic's education minister Ali Asghar Fani said.
Currently some 13 million students are studying in 105,000 schools in Iran, Fani said, semi-official Fars news agency reported Sept. 21.
He made the remarks in a meeting with Italy 's visiting minister of Education, University and Research Stefania Giannini in Tehran.
Fani further said that the ministry's educational material reaches one million people.
Iran finally lifted ban on education of children of approximately three million Afghans in the country, following the order of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last May.
"No Afghan child, not even immigrants who came to Iran illegally and without documents, must be kept from an education and all of them must be registered in Iranian schools," Khamenei ordered.
It should be noted that Giannini, heading a delegation of top Italian academician, scientists, and education officials, arrived in Tehran on Sept. 19.
The Italian minister and Iranian Science minister Mohammad Farhadi signed an agreement on the promotion of educational and scientific cooperation on Sept. 20.
According to the accorded agreement, joint expert committees will be formed to plan road maps for future cooperation on scientific research between the two sides.
The two officials also agreed to collaborate on fueling improvement of scientific and technology parks in each other's countries. In addition, both sides accepted to provide joint university projects undertaken from 2016 to 2018 with up to €100,000 of funds.
Edited by CN
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