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In the meeting between Vice President Jahangiri and deputies of the Ministry of Education, the ministry plan for the new Persian year was unveiled, the plan is based on the “Fundamental Evolution Guidelines” of the Sixth Development Plan.

After the six sub categories of the 1404 Evolution Guidelines were approved in the Higher Education Council and signed by the President, they were employed by Ministry of Education to write the new plans.

Ali Rabiee, the government spokesman announced that the regulations for the teacher ranking system has been amended and approved by the government.

He tweeted that "Today, with the efforts of the Minister of Education, the regulations for the teacher ranking system have been properly amended, restored and approved by the government. The new rulings will be issued from the beginning of Iranian New Year, and the thus changes in teacher salaries will be applied according to the new ranking system.”

Attending the Organization for Educational Research and Planning, the Deputy of the Ministry of Education expressed her views, expectations and issues regarding the curriculum in the fields of education and learning.

Dr. Rezvan Hakimzadeh, the deputy of Primary Education, spoke about the Quranic schools and education and its characteristics, as well as the dignity of students. Then she explored their programs and efforts, including:

-  Eliminating of tests and testing in elementary school,

- Prohibiting of the use of educational aid books in schools

The Minister of Education said that the presence of all students in schools from next week is allowed but masks and gloves and observing social distances are mandatory.

"Schools will be disinfected until Saturday and students who have no questions or problems with online or TV education, are not required to attend schools. However, teachers are required to be present at schools. Preschoolers and exceptional students are not allowed to attend schools because they are vulnerable to the coronavirus." Mohsen HajiMirzaei told IRIB.

In a meeting with some of the newly elected MPs of the 11th parliament of the Islamic republic of Iran, Dr. Mohsen HajiMirzaei, the Minister of Education, stated that our goal is to improve the status of education, adding that the Islamic countries have welcomed the Shad app at the ISESCO summit.

He congratulated the elected members and said: I hope the next parliament take steps towards the progress of the country and fulfilling the ideals of the Islamic Revolution and the guidelines of the Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Following the emergency video conference of the Ministers of Education of the ISESCO member states, called "Educational Systems in the Face of Crises and Emergencies ()" to address the challenges facing member states and finding fundamental solutions in this area an statement were releases.

Participants from 15 countries welcomed the online Persian language teaching course.

Sa'di Foundation's Deputy Head for Training and Research, Reza Morad Sahraei told reporters that Participants from 15 countries welcomed the online Persian language teaching course.

“Registration for the virtual course began on March 16 and has been welcomed by fans in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Georgia, Japan, Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy, Tunisia, Lebanon, India, Argentina, Egypt and Armenia,” he added.

Iran's Minister of Education appointed Dr. Hassan Maleki as the new head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning.

In a ceremony held in Tehran on Saturday, Mohsen Haji Mirzaei, the Iran's Minister of Education, appointed Dr. Hassan Maleki as his new executive advisor and the head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning.

Hassan Maleki is a faculty member of the well-known Allameh Tabatabai University, who previously served as the deputy of OERP.

Minister of Education Mohsen Haj-Mirzaei said that Iran is ready for sharing technical experience with Muslim states and provide applicant countries with free of charge virtual education capacity.

Amir al-Momineen Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (BPUH) was martyred on 21st Ramadan 40 A.H. by an assassin who mortally wounded the Holy Imam (PBUH) with a poisoned sword in the Mosque at Kufah during morning prayers on 19th Ramadan 40 A.H.

Children aged 8 to 15 will take part in an online opera performance based on Mantiq at-Tayr (Conference of the Birds), a magnum opus of the Persian poet and mystic Farid ud-Din Attar Neyshaburi.

The Iranian Institute of Wisdom and Philosophy has invited faculty members, students of Persian language and literature, and other fields of the humanities to submit papers for the 6th International Conference on Shams and Mawlana.

 Iran’s Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) has recently published the fifth edition of the Persian translation of Austrian author Bernhardt Lins’ book “Willi Wishes for a Brother” (“Willi Wunscht Sich Einen Bruder”).

Iranians held the religious rituals of the Night of Decree (Laylat al-Qadr), which fell on Tuesday night, in different cities within the health protocols issued by the Coronavirus Combat and Prevention Headquarters.

Iran’s Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) has announced writer Hamidreza Shahabadi and its mobile library program as its nominees for the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

An official with the Health Ministry said that Iranian researchers managed to attain the technical knowhow and knowledge of producing the novel coronavirus drugs.

Iranian short ‘Braceball’, written and directed by Reyhane Mortezaeinia, will take part in the 4th Ramsgate International Film and TV Festival in the UK.

The Iranian publisher Besat has said that the Arabic version of “Goodbye, Commander”, a memoir of martyr Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani’s widow, Fatemeh Cheraghnoruzi, has become a bestseller.

A new Persian translation of Dutch Iranologist Willem Marius Floor’s book “History of Bread in Iran” by Saba Karkhizan has been published in Persian.

 “Illustrated Famous Chinese Myths Series” has been published in Persian by Afarinegan Publishing in Tehran.

A book recounting Commander Qassem Soleimani’s struggles against the ISIS terrorists in the region has been published in Indonesia.

All schools of the Chinese city of Wuhan reopened after 4 months. Wuhan is the city which coronavirus initially emerged from there.ش

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei said: of 550,000 classrooms which were built in our country, 100,000 are built by Charity schools association of Iran.

The deputy head of Kerman’s province education office Hossein Barahoui said: “SHAD” social network is one of safest educational environments in Iran.

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei said: The education system is the most important pillar of all developments in the society.

The Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei officially inaugurated “SHAD” social network.

Online meetings about “Iranian studies and Persian Language” started in Kazakhstan with the cooperation of Allameh Tabatabaee University, Iran’s cultural attachés office, Saadi Foundation office, and the department of Persian Language at oriental studies of al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

Iran’s Institute for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA) has sent its latest offerings to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair which goes online for the first time this year from May 4 to 7.

 The electronic version of “Stories from Quran” from Iranian children’s book writer Mehdi Azar Yazdi’s popular series “Good Stories for Good Children” has recently been published in Thailand.

Yesterday, many lovers of Persian culture, history and literature marked the National Shiraz Day mainly through online programs and visits to Hafezieh where Hafez, an illustrious 14th-century Persian poet, is laid to rest in the southern Iranian city.

The head of Organization for Educational Research and Planning Ali Zouelm said: the formation of identity coherency in National Curriculum is quite necessary.

Some eleven Iranian universities participated in 2020 Round University Ranking (RUR) and K. N. Toosi University of Technology for the first time stood in the 5th position.

Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said that knowledge-based companies have produced a lot of equipment for the treating coronavirus, and Iran is able to export them to other countries.

An Italian translation of “The Dawn of Islam” by the prominent scholar of Iranian literature Abdolhossein Zarinkub has been published in Italy. 

A 15-meter high iron sculpture representing Iranian Kurdish people’s resistance during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war has been set up in the western Iranian city of Sanandaj. 

Organization for Educational Research and Planning (OERP) to act upon the Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution held charity campaign to support people who were deeply affected by Coronavirus in Iran.

The Iranian Association of Writers for Children and Youth has announced its nominees for the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, a prestigious Swedish honor to promote children’s and youths’ literature in the world.

 Iran’s book-reading promoter Abdolhakim Bahar has been selected for the 2021 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) in Sweden.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in a message congratulating all teachers in schools, universities and seminaries on Teacher's Day, highlighted the great work and jihad of teachers to flourish the talents of children and adolescents in the path of Islamic and revolutionary values ​​with the aim of creating a just, idealistic and religious society.

“The Stories of the Truthful” (Dastan-e Rastan) by Martyr Ayatollah Morteza Motahhari has been published in Uganda. 

Yeni Insan, a Turkish publisher based in Istanbul, will publish two Persian memoirs about the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

Iran is celebrating Teachers’ Day which marks the day in memory of Ayatollah Morteza Motahari who was assassinated on May 1, 1979.

Tenth of the second Iranian calendar month Ordibehesht (April 29) marks the National Persian Gulf Day, which is the anniversary of the victory over Portuguese troops during a war in the Persian Gulf in 1622.

The first online poetry night was held in Iran by Neyestan Literary Society.

Handicrafts exports from the lesser-known Sistan-Baluchestan province surpassed $3 million during the previous Iranian calendar year 1398 (ended on March 19).

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has donated 4.5 billion rials (about $110,000) to help release prisoners of unintentional crimes.

The Book City Institute has recorded nearly 200,000 viewers for “A Week with Sadi and Sepehri”, a seminar that was organized from April 20 to 27 online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Musician Puya Sarai has remade “Rabbana”, a recitation of an invocation performed by legendary vocalist Mohammadreza Shajarian in 1980, with santur and some electronic instruments. 

The Saba Art and Cultural Institute in Tehran is playing host to an exhibition of the calligraphy of Quranic verses in various styles.

The Pol Literary and Translation Agency, a Tehran-based institution that translates Iranian books and presents Persian-language publications around the world, has sent three books by Persian writers to Croatia to be translated into Croatian.