Some 14 million students will attend schools in the new school year starting on September 23, Minster of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei has announced.Read More

 The presidential office for women’s and family affairs with the cooperation of the Ministry of Education is to identify girls deprived from education in border areas, said Masoumeh Ebtekar, the vice president for women’s and family affairs, here on Wednesday. Since many immigrant children are living in the border areas and many of them are...Read More

The Iranian vice president for women’s and family affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, in a new initiative, invited girl students, to write about their problems in heartfelt letters to her. The female vice president have made such a proposal, to provide the opportunity for Iranian girls to raise their problems and let the officials, and herself as...Read More

Women made up 1.4 percent of faculty members of universities before the Islamic Revolution (1979), while this number shows a growth of 17 times reaching to 24 percent, Rajabali Borzooei, an official with Shahid Beheshti University, has said. Currently, about 4,150,000 students are studying in Iranian universities showing a growth of 23 times comparing with...Read More

A new law approved here on Tuesday by Tehran’s City Council gave priority to women drivers for girls’ school services. The law was approved by absolute vote of the council of 18 members for all primary and secondary schools, ISNA quoted Tehran city councilor Nahid Khodakarami as saying. Normally with the beginning of the school...Read More