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History of Education in Iran


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1 Department of Social Sciences, Payam Noor University of Bonab, Bonab, Iran, Islamic Republic of
     

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Education in Iran is highly centralized and is divided into K-12 education and higher education. K-12 education is supervised by the Ministry of Education and higher education is under supervision of Ministry of Science and Technology. 85% of the Iranian adult population is now literate, well ahead of the regional average of 62%. This rate increases to 97% among young adults (aged between 15 and 24) without any gender discrepancy. By 2007, Iran had a student to workforce population ratio of 10.2%, standing among the countries with highest ratio in the world.

Keywords

Education, Modern Education, Teacher Education.
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Ebrahim Khoshraftar Somee Sofla
Department of Social Sciences, Payam Noor University of Bonab, Bonab, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Abstract


Education in Iran is highly centralized and is divided into K-12 education and higher education. K-12 education is supervised by the Ministry of Education and higher education is under supervision of Ministry of Science and Technology. 85% of the Iranian adult population is now literate, well ahead of the regional average of 62%. This rate increases to 97% among young adults (aged between 15 and 24) without any gender discrepancy. By 2007, Iran had a student to workforce population ratio of 10.2%, standing among the countries with highest ratio in the world.

Keywords


Education, Modern Education, Teacher Education.