Iran Book Week, an annual event held on November 15, known as Book, Reading and Librarianship Day, organized by the Iran Book and Literature House, has commenced with a range of planned programs. However, amidst the excitement, concerns about the reading habits of Iranians have come to the forefront.

Barekat Charity Foundation, affiliated with the Headquarters for Executing the Order of the Imam, will build 2,700 schools using new ideas and technologies.

On Saturday, President Ebrahim Raisi said no one should be denied of the opportunity for education due to poverty.

Educational spaces nationwide have been living in bitter silence for about 18 months due to the coronavirus pandemic, but school bells rang again on Saturday as signs of the deadly disease are going to diminish across the country.

School building benefactors have allocated a total of 60 trillion rials (nearly $1.4 billion at the official rate of 42,000 rials) to construct educational spaces over the past four years, IRNA reported on Wednesday.

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A budget of 100 trillion rials (nearly $2.3 billion) will be allocated to Iran school renovation projects across the country while constructing new educational places, Education Minister Mohsen Haji Mirzaei has stated. The budget is partially paid by the Ministry of Education and the benefactors by the end of this year […]

TEHRAN – One third of schools in Iran are dilapidated and require renovation, director of schools renovation, development and equipment organization said on Saturday. As per an article of the sixth five-year development plan (2016-2021), $3 billion can be withdrawn from the National Development Fund for renovating and equipping schools, ISNA quoted Mehrollah Rakhshanimehr as […]

Pakistan International School and College Tehran (PISCT) has provided relief aid to the victims of the deadly earthquake that recently struck Kermanshah province in western Iran. The relief assistance was handed over to the representatives of the Iranian Red Crescent in Tehran on Wednesday in the presence of Imran Haider, Deputy Head of Mission who […]

TEHRAN — President Hassan Rouhani officially marked the beginning of 2017-18 school year by ringing the bell of a school in Tehran on Saturday. Annually and prior to the opening of schools, which falls on the first day of the 7th Iranian calendar month of Mehr (September 23), the president raises a question dubbed “The […]

TEHRAN – Afghan refugee children went to school in Iran on Saturday as the Iranian students started the new school year this morning. Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has issued an order three years ago stressing that all Afghan children, even children of the undocumented migrants living in the country […]