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Members of Iran’s Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) have won prizes at the Kao International Environment Painting Contest for Children in Tokyo, Japan, the IIDCYA announced on Friday.

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The selection jury of Iranian movies of Roshd International Film Festival ended its work and selected some movies for the competition section. 

The head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning(OERP) Ali Zouelm said: Teaching foreign languages is one of the main 11 education areas in National Curriculum. 

Feature animation “The Last Fiction”, made by Iranian director Ashkan Rahgozar, won the Best Feature Animation award at 6th Epic ACG Festival in California, US.

Iranian feature 'Stam_mer', directed by Mohammadreza Haji Gholami, has been accepted into the lineup of 31st Vienna International Children’s Film Festival in Austria.

The Iranian short “Am I a Wolf?” by Amir-Hushang Moin won the Golden Dove for best animated film at the 62nd DOK Leipzig, a German festival for documentary and animated films, the organizers announced on Saturday.

Iran’s Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) announced on Saturday that it has published Canadian writer Emilie Rivard’s “Really and Truly” in Persian. 

People, especially students, took to the streets in various cities across Iran to mark the 40th anniversary of the capture of the former U.S. embassy, known as the “den of espionage”, in Tehran.

Ahead of the National Day of Fighting Global Arrogance and the National Day of Students, a group of school and university students met with Ayatollah Khamenei— the Leader of the Islamic Revolution— at the Hussayniyeh of Imam Khomeini, this morning November 3, 2019.

The head of Literacy Movement Organization (LMO) Shapour Mohammadzadeh said: the eradication of illiteracy is one of the main concerns of Islamic republic of Iran’s Supreme Leader. We should do our best to meet this goal.

The head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP) Ali Zouelm appointed Mohammad Mahdi Kazemi as the deputy of Resource Development of OERP. Kazemi replaced Dr. Bagherzadeh.    

The Governor of Khuzestan province Gholamreza Shariati said: more than 3500 students resumed their studies in Khuzestan Province.

German Ambassador to Iran Michael Klor-Berchtold described the world emanating from the thoughts of Hafez is a poetic world based on friendship and love, saying that the great Persian poet led the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 200 years ago to reach a milestone in understanding among nations. 

 A lineup of 142 films from Iran and 25 other countries will go on screen in the 49th Roshd International Film Festival this year, the organizers have announced.

Persian poet Mazaher Mosaffa, mostly famous for his odes, died of natural causes at his home in Tehran on Thursday. He was 87.

In a session on Wednesday, the council of ministers, chaired by President Hassan Rouhani, approved three regulations related to supporting the rights of physically challenged persons, the president.ir reported.

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei said: The problem of the shortage of educational spaces should be turned into a social concern.

The head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP) Ali Zouelm said: schools, religious schools, and universities are 3 effective institutions to realize the Second Phase of Revolution Statement. He added: of them, schools are the most important ones.

Minister of education said: the councils of education in Iran’s provinces are the main bases for driving change and development in the process of learning.

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei inaugurated 7 charity sports halls for students in Mashhad (the capital of Khorasane Razavi Province).

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei said: the development of provinces will not be met without paying attention to education.

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei inaugurated 156 sports projects across the country by video conference in his travel to Mashhad(The capital of Khorasane Razavi Province).

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Tehran plans to celebrate 32 years of its presence in Iran by organizing an exhibition of paintings by refugee children living in the country.

The head of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province education office Hadi Zare Pour said: physical punishment is the red line of Iran’s education system and no teacher is allowed to punish students physically.

The head of Iran’s Book House Niknam Hosseini Pour said: 18000 books will be distributed in flood-hit and deprived areas of Lorestan Province.

The head of Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari education office Farahnaz Ghaed Amini said: the sixth Student Sports Olympiad of Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province started on Wednesday (30 October) with the presence of 202 thousand students.

The construction of the House of Mathematics in Arak (Markazi Province) was passed in the meeting of the Education Council of Markazi Province. The process of construction of that will start by next month.

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei will travel to Mashhad (the capital of Khorasan-e Razavi Province) on Thursday (October 31).

The Beaver International Competition will be held on November 8. The Beaver Challenge of Waterloo University is a competition with the presence of students from countries around the world.

The Iranian MP Mohammad Reza Sabaghiyan believes that the cultural dimension should not be ignored in the field of education. “If culture is ignored, negative consequences like social problems, divorce and addiction will increase”, he added.

The deputy of the Minister of Education in cultural affairs Alireza Kazemi said: More than 11 million Iranian students participated in The Twenty-Second Student Council Elections.

The Scientific Secretary of the 4th National Student Festival of Ibn Sina said: Iranian students had a successful presence in Korea World Invention Innovation Contest 2019 and could gain medals in different fields including Neuroscience, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer.

Iranian-Czech co-production ‘Son-Mother’, directed by Mahnaz Mohammadi, won two top prizes at the 14th edition of International Rome Film Festival in Italy.

The governor of the western province of Kermanshah has said that a group of UNESCO will travel to Uraman region rural district in the province to look into the possibility of listing the beautiful historical region as a world heritage site.

A budget of 100 trillion rials (nearly $2.3 billion) will be allocated to renovate and retrofit the schools across the country while constructing new educational places, Education Minister Mohsen Haji Mirzaei has stated.

Globally-renowned Iranian traditional music maestro of kamancheh Kayhan Kalhor was awarded on Sunday the prestigious WOMEX artist prize for “bringing the Persian classical music tradition to the ears of people all over the world”.

Iran and Germany are expanding archeological collaboration in line with the plans to inscribe the ruins of Rab’-e Rashidi, an educational complex dating back to the 14th century, in the northwestern East Azarbaijan province, on the UNESCO World Heritage list.

Political commentators hold that Washington is using sanctions violation charges as a lame excuse to keep top Iranian stem cell scientist Professor Masoud Soleimani behind the bars to pose further pressure on the Islamic Republic and hamper its scientific growth.

Iranian short animated piece ‘Am I A Wolf?’, by Amir Houshang Moein, will take part at the 8th Kuandu International Animation Festival (KDIAF) in Taiwan.

Italy’s Ambassador to Tehran Giuseppe Perrone visited the tomb of the great Persian poet Ferdowsi in Mashhad and unveiled a bust of the great poet.

The Mostazafan Foundation has provided some 40,000 packages consisting of stationery products for student residing in deprived areas, according to the Foundation’s public relations department.

The Australian city of Sydney will be hosting a two-day conference on prominent and influential Iranian philosopher and theologian Al-Ghazali. 

Participants from a wide range of countries will attend the 6th Science and Technology Exchange Program (STEP) in Islamic Countries, the executive secretary of the event Mohammad Mehdi Jafari announced during the press conference, which was held at Iran Broadcasting University (IBU) on October 23.

A national vision screening program is underway to diagnose Amblyopia and other visual impairments in children aged 3 to 6 years across the country.

Iran’s first school, built based on environment protection standards, was inaugurated in Tehran, Ali Shahri, director general of the organization for renovation, development and equipment of Tehran schools, said on Tuesday.

The book “Shahidane Fahmideh” written by Iranian author Aboutaleb Hafezi is published in English. The unveiling Ceremony of this book was held in fars news Agency with the presence of the head of Iran’s Student Basij Organization.

An exhibition of handicrafts, featuring wide-ranging works by Iranian artisans, is underway at the Al Bustan Palace, a 5-star luxury hotel in Muscat.

Iranian feature 'Douch', directed by Amir Mashhadi Abbas, is taking part at the competition program of 21st Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival in India.

The Elahi-nameh (The Book of God), one of the masterpieces of Persian literature by the mystic and poet Farid ud-Din Mohammad ibn Ebrahim Attar (C. 1142-1220), has recently been published in Japanese.