Iran Islamic Changes Planned for Social Sciences Plans are afoot in Iran to bring the teaching of social sciences at universities into line with Islamic teachings over the next few years. Senior education official Abolfazl Hassani, announcing the restrictions of 12 social sciences in October,…
Iran Medical School Faces Closure Iranian students and politicians are protesting a decision to shutter one of the country’s largest medical and educational centers. Health Minister Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi announced on October 30 that Tehran’s Iranian University of Medical Sciences was to be dissolved. According to…
Iran Hardliners Move to Bring Down Moderate, Private University Iran’s top leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is moving against Islamic Azad University, the country’s largest private university and a center of moderate thought, the Associated Press has reported. The ayatollah issued a decree in October declaring…
Regional Rapidly Increasing Interest in the Arab Region Among U.S. Students Mobile American college students are increasingly choosing to spend their year abroad in countries of the Middle East such as Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. According to a February 2010…
Iran Parliament Rejects Ahmadinejad University Reform Bill Legislators rejected an education bill on June 20 in a debate that is closely linked to Iranian political rivalries, pitting supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against the reformist camp and one of its main leaders, Ayatollah Ali Akbar…