July 2020

Free Internet for Shaad Educational Network

Iran’s Minister of Education said that in order to solve the problem of dropouts, a Memorandum of Cooperation should be signed between the Ministry of Education and other government agencies.

In a meeting to identify, recruit, educate and maintain children who have dropped out of elementary schools, Mohsen Haji Mirzaei said that one of the brilliant achievements of the Islamic Republic is developing educational opportunities and reducing the educational gap between urban and rural areas, calling it an “important step to promote social justice.”

US Schools Unlikely to Fully Reopen This Year

Millions more children in the U.S. learned Friday that they're unlikely to return to classrooms full time in the fall because of the coronavirus pandemic as death tolls reached new highs.

It came as many states — particularly in the Sunbelt — struggled to cope with the surge and governments worldwide tried to control fresh outbreaks. In a sign of how the virus is galloping around the globe, the World Health Organization reported nearly a quarter-million new infections in a single day.

Education Should Be Free of Obscenity and Petrification

Stressing that the education and curriculum planning should be kept safe from two serious enemies, -obscenity and petrification-, Dr. Hassan Maleki stated that obscenity means not adhering to any principle and discipline, and petrification means ignoring the facts and scientific growth.

He added: We should not be neither fascinated nor hostile with different scientific views and schools; rather, we should be critical and selective.

ABA Project: Creating Equal Opportunities for students in rural areas

The Organization of Non-Governmental Schools and Centers and the Development of Public Participation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Abrar Charitable Society to implement a curriculum for students who have dropped out of school through e-learning distance learning.

Mojtaba Zeyni-Vand, the head of the organization said that the plan called “the Reconciliation with Education” or ABA is a good platform for creating equal educational opportunities.

Iran to Hold First Online Exhibitions of Educational Publishers

The online exhibition, which is organized and planned by the Cultural Association of Educational Publishers, will be held in two phases and for two groups.

The first phase is that publishers sell their books in one website at certain time and in the second phase, the publishers are presenting and selling their books in a certain website under different circumstances.

In the first phase, book sales happen on publishers' own sites at the same time; they will determine the circumstances. According to the news, it will start on July 5th.

Students Abroad to Join Shaad Network

The head of the Center for International Affairs and Schools Abroad, said that from the end of July, students from all schools abroad will join the Shad Network. adding that the infrastructure for this purpose has been set.

 

Gholamreza Karimi told reporters that the schools for next school year will begin in some countries in September, including the UAE and other Arab countries others will open in mid-September. “Currently we don’t know what will happen to the education in future, maybe it will be held online or partly-online;” he added.