According to announcements by the officials of the Ministry of Education in the past few days, the numbers of students in the country have decreased to 12 million 300,000 from last year’s 12 million 800,000 in light of the stable population growth in the past few years, the decrease of the population of students means that students have dropped out of school for economic and social reasons.
In the last decade, in light of the stable population growth which is about 1.5 percent, the decrease of the number of students from 18 million to 12 million shows that about 6 million students have joined the school drop outs which is a cause for concern and very painful because according to this, from every 3 Iranian students, one student drops out and can no longer continue his\her education. (Aftab state-run website – Sep. 26, 2011)