Iran Press/Iran News: Attending the Global Meeting of Ministers of Education Mohsen Hajimirzaei elaborated on the activities of Iran's Ministry of Education in fostering suitable conditions for education during the corona pandemic.
Hajimirzaei said that prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Iran took various measures including enacting the Supporting Act for Children and Young adults and pursuing activities for the prevention of child labor to prevent the children from dropping-out so as for them to remain in the educational process.
He underlined education as a fundamental right for all the children in the Islamic Republic of Iran, noting that all policies and planning were organized to provide resources and guarantee access to education for 99 percent of the children to elementary schooling.
"In the new ecosystem induced by the pandemic, several special actions and planning have been undertaken for all children and young adults in general and the children in vulnerable situations and refugees in particular including producing a TV school, and broadcasting daily educational programs for all grades across the country," the Iranian minister explained.
He further said: "To retain the educational motivation of students and to establish mutual or multilateral relations between students on the one hand and educational facilitators on the other, our ministry has developed a special interactive educational platform known as SHAD for all the students. All learners in the Iranian educational system have registered on this platform, and more than 85 percent of them receive their educational needs through it. Furthermore, all teachers, principals, and parents have access to and use it."
Hajimirzaei highlighted referred to his country's efforts to provide all children with access to education and said Iran created learning packages and leaflets for those who don’t have access to modern technologies and e-learning. Through developing organized inter-agency collaboration, we identified the children outside the coverage of formal education and place them in the formal learning process.
The collaboration, he noted, equally encompassed marginalized children, foreign nationals, and refugees, adding that more than 550 thousand foreign national children from about 30 countries receive formal education as Iranian students do.
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