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14 wounded in latest field trip accident

Another bus carrying Iranian students on a field trip to southern Iran has overturned on the road, wounding fourteen passengers. » read more

Secular professors not wanted: Minister

Iran’s Minister of Science and Technology insists that Iranian universities want “no secular professors.” » read more

Nobel laureate calls on UN to protect Iranian women

Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi has written to the United Nations to protest the Islamic Republic’s recent policies toward women. » read more

Minister to explain reduced female enrollment

The head of the Education and Research Commission of Iran’s Parliament has announced that Iran’s Science Minister has been summoned to Parliament to explain the recent restrictions against the acceptance of women in a number of university programs. » read more

Fewer female students admitted to university

Yazd University has limited its acceptance of women in engineering programs for the coming academic year. » read more

Journalism scrapped from top university

Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran will not accept any journalism students for the coming year. Enrollment into journalism in the current year was also closed. » read more

Iranian mosques to offer day care services

The Welfare Organization of Iran has announced plans for the establishment of 100 day cares in the country's mosques. » read more

Dance and song to be omitted from preschool programs

The head of Iran’s Welfare Organization has warned preschool and daycare centres against teaching “immoral programs such as dancing” to children. » read more

Protesters won’t get grants: minister

Iran’s Minister of Science announced that his department will cut off bursaries and grants to students connected with the post-election protests of 2009. » read more

Role of clergy to expand in Iranian schools

Educators are to undergo extra training by the clergy, the Iranian Ministry of Education has announced. » read more