ISNA | Pouria Pakizeh, Amirhosein KHorgooi, Alireza Golab, Mehdi Motamed, Mohammadreza Dehdari, Mohsen Shanechi, Maryam Ebrahime, Ahmad Zohrabi: Ceremony on the beginning of the new school year is being held across Iran with protective health protocols. The students are provided with disinfectants and face masks to ensure their safety. The classes ...

Tasnim Students will go to school on an odd-even plan in the new educational year as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread in the country, Irans education minister announced. All schools in Iran will reopen on September 5, Mohsen Haji Mirzaee said on Wednesday. He added that students of both urban and rural schools with high population density ...

IRNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that new school year is to start on September 5 considering the protective protocols to contain coronavirus pandemic highlighting the need to wear masks in the public places. Speaking in anti-COVID19 committee on Saturday, Rouhani said Iranian people, medical staff and all officials should ...

Tasnim All schools in Iran will reopen as of Saturday, May 16, after almost three months of closure in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the minister of education announced. Speaking to the state TV on Tuesday, Iranian Education Minister Mohsen Haji Mirzaee said the schools will reopen on coming Saturday. The teachers and school staff will ...

Al-Monitor - After opening mosques and religious sites in a number of cities with low coronavirus infection rates this week, Irans President Hassan Rouhani announced yesterday May 3 that they will open schools beginning May 16. Mohsen Haji Mirzaei, Irans Education Minister, said today that at the National Headquarters for Combatting Coronavirus ...

Al-Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: In response to Irans coronavirus outbreak in late February, one of the governments first actions was to close schools and universities on March 5, leaving the education of millions of students in limbo. The prolonged shutdown has led to major challenges for students, parents and teachers. Mahta is a fifth-grade student ...

Financial Tribune - The Department of Environment had drafted a bill on a winter break for schools. It was approved by the Cabinet at the time and sent to the parliament, but was later shelved As Iranian metropolises struggled with suffocating air pollution over the past few weeks, which led to extended school closures, some urban authorities have ...

AP Irans state-run IRNA news agency reports that authorities in the capital Tehran have decided to close down all kindergartens, schools and universities because of high levels of air pollution. The Friday report quotes Tehran Province Deputy Gov. Mohammad Taghiizade as saying a special committee made the decision following days of high air pollution ...

Asharq Al-awsat English - Heavy snowfall blanketed the streets of north Tehran on Saturday, causing traffic chaos and forcing the closure of schools, authorities in the Iranian capital said. Crews of municipal workers were battling to clear roads and pavements in parts of the capital, where snow began falling at the start of the morning rush hour ...

Financial Tribune - In order to expedite the processing of applications, increase transparency and curb paper use, Iranian schools are to record the documents of all primary school students electronically. As of the beginning of the next academic year (Sept. 23), the documents of all first graders will be stored in electronic systems. According ...

Tehran Times - Some 10,000 classrooms which have been destroyed by flood will be fully renovated and prepared by the beginning of school year (September 23), director of schools renovation, development and equipment organization has announced. Torrential rain started on March 19 led to flood in at least 25 out of 31 provinces of Iran and caused ...

Tehran Times - Considering the current population of students educating in Tehran, there is a shortage of 12,000 classrooms which will increase to 18,000 over the next few years, director of the organization for renovation of Tehran schools has stated. Currently, 8,500 classrooms are beyond repair and must be reconstructed, while 14,500 others need ...

IRNA The ground breaking ceremony of reconstruction of schools in flood-stricken areas in northern Iran started by Iranian Education Minister Mohammad Bathaei. Addressing the ceremony, Bathaei said the reconstruction of other schools will also go ahead. He added that the recent floods damaged 1,500 schools and 200 of them must be rebuilt. Earlier,...

ISNA | Borna Qassemi: President Hassan Rouhani in a symbolic gesture rang the bell at a girls� high school in downtown Tehran on Sunday to mark the first day of school year in Iran.    

MNA President Hassan Rouhani in a symbolic gesture rang the bell at a girls high school in downtown Tehran on Sunday to mark the first day of school year in Iran. Iranian students start the school year on September 22, which marks the first day of autumn on the Iranian calendar,after a three-month summer vacation. The back-to-school ...

IRNA Iranian schools host more than 500,000 foreign refugee students, said Iran's minister of education in a tweet on Saturday. 'Iran, as a signatory of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is committed to implement its content, and has always taken steps to materialize its goals through passing laws or amendments of the [existing] laws,' said ...

IRNA - Air pollution has prompted Iranian authorities to close schools in the capital Tehran and other major cities across the country. The capital's Air Quality Index (AQI) was reported at 149 and declared unhealthy for the sensitive groups of population, including the elderly, children, pregnant women and people with heart problems. Schools ...

IRNA | Mahdi Qorbani: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday rang opening bell of new school year in the country.    

MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday rang opening bell of new school year in the country. Iranian academic year began on Saturday in a ceremony held in Tehran's ?Shahid Modarress Conservatoryattended by President Hassan Rouhani, who rang the opening bell of the new learning season. In Iran, first grade students started their school ...

Press TV - UAE officials have closed down an Iranian school in the emirate's third city of Sharjah, refusing to extend its permit over what they have calledillegalconstruction within the facility. Ali Hosseini, the Iranian Education Ministrys deputy for international affairs, said the facility had been leased and had not undertaken any construction ...