Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

Thursday, November 3, 2016

Iran: Studying in the Ramshackle Schools

Iran: Studying in the Ramshackle Schools

NCRI - The students in Kerman (south of Iran) study in the schools that have been considerably damaged by the earthquake occurred in 2004.The buildings have not yet been retrofit or renovated in years and the risk of earthquakes threaten the students every now and then.

On 31st October 2016, Mehr News Agency reported that the number of earthquakes in Zarand City has reached to 50 times and the people of Zarand are concerned about their children who study in such buildings.
According to the figures, there are 10 schools in Zarand City so far which lack any resistance against the earthquake and were abandoned after the earthquake of 2004.The effects of the past earthquake are still visible on the walls of schools but the villagers are compelled to send their children to schools so that they continue their education.
The governor of Zarand in an interview with Mehr News Agency stated:"according to the figures, 30 percent of school buildings are non-resistant and of course some of those have not been renovated after the earthquake of 2004 and they need to be funded."
He continued:"due to the high volume of cracking in various constructions such as schools, we cannot yet meet the expenses. The head of Education Organization of Kerman stressed on the fact that these problems shall not be ignored. There are 800 ramshackle schools in all of the regions of Kerman Province. Some of these schools are less-populated and some of them are dense and we are invariably concerned about the situation of students and the place they are studying in and we always thank God each day as no incident occurs."
Mehr News Agency, affiliated with the Mullahs' regime also reported about the occurrence of 3 earthquakes in Zarand, Kerman on 31st October 2016.The last earthquake was reported to be as large as 4.6 Richter on the scale.
It is worth noting that the students of Iran study in such destroyed buildings and schools while the Mullahs' regime spend the money and wealth of the country on exporting terrorism and war to Syria, Yemen, Iraq, and Lebanon.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Iran: Flogging students because of inability to pay tuition

Flogging students because of inability to pay tuition

NCRI - Subsequent to widespread coverage of barbaric flogging of school children in central Iran province – Kerman, on social networks and revelation of the Iranian regime's repressive measures against the students, regime officials of the Ministry of Education threatened students and their families that if they do not deny the flogging news, they will be expelled from school forever, and because of this Intimidation some of them denied their previous revelations.
Iran: Flogging students because of inability to pay tuition + Video
In an inhuman act by the clerical regime ruling Iran, the principal of a school in a village in Kerman province (southern Iran) flogged a number of students because of their parents inability to pay 300 thousands rials (~$10) tuition fee and expelled them from the school.

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Iran: Three million two hundred thousand children being hindered from education

Iran: Three million two hundred thousand children being hindered from education
NCRI - ISNA news agency has on Saturday September 24 quoted from “Shahindokht Molaverdi”, regime’s vice president, that three million two hundred thousand children are being hindered from education among which girls are the main group.
Regarding the hindered from education, she said: “According to the results of the Parliament’s Research Center, at the moment there are three million two hundred thousand children In Iran who are being hindered from education.”
According to a statistics published in 2015, many of the children hindered from education are from deprived provinces in the country while girls have the majority in the statistics. Last September at the beginning of the 2015 school year, about one million four hundred thirty thousand students didn’t go to school.
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