Iran’s Ministry of Science has finally put a halt to the rapid trend of forcing university professors into early retirement, announcing that pending retirements have been postponed for five years. Khabar-on-line reports that the ministry announcement comes after widespread criticism of the Ahmadinejad administration’s policy of removing numerous top university lecturers who were deemed […]
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Heaviest Pressures; Highest Costs
The Iranian calendar year turned into a new year on the first day of spring – March 20th – as it does every year. So this is a time of reflection on many issues and for many people in the country. For students and university professionals, this was the year when they witnessed unprecedented […]
Issuing impossible bail and depriving of university exams for Abolfazl Abedini
Officials issued 900 million tomans bail for Abolfazl Abedini’s medical furlough and prevented him to take his university exams.
Top Iranian university among new sanction targets
The EU has imposed sanctions on Iran’s top institution of technology, Sanati Sharif University in Tehran.
End clampdown on university students and release those imprisoned for their peaceful activism
ADVOCACY COUNCIL FOR THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION * AMNESTY INERNATIONAL * JUSTICE FOR IRAN * SHIRIN EBADI
Iranian Official Calls For Open Elections
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of Iran’s Expediency Council and a seasoned Islamic Republic politician, says “free and open elections would solve many of the current problems of the country.”
Court Of Appeals Upheld Ten Year Sentence of University of Texas Doctoral Student Omid Kokabee
Branch 36 of the Court of Appeals has upheld the 10 year imprisonment sentence of Omid Kokabee. According to reports by Jaras, Kokabee’s lawyers have not been allowed to visit with him.
Journalism scrapped from top university
Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran will not accept any journalism students for the coming year. Enrollment into journalism in the current year was also closed.
Iranian minister says university no place for ‘dissidents’
Iran’s Minister of Science and Technology has stressed once again that students who were involved in the 2009 protests will not be allowed to study in Iranian universities and that Iran’s institutions of higher education will not be run according to Western standards.
University Ban For Iranian Protestors Of 2009
It has been reported that any Iranians who took part in 2009 protests against the reelection of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad will be banned from studying at university.