Education in Iran is centralized and divided into K-12 education plus higher education. Elementary and secondary education is supervised by the Ministry of Education and higher education is under the supervision of Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and Ministry of Health and Medical Education for medical sciences. As of 2016, around 86% of the Iranian adult population is literate. This rate increases to 97% among young adults ages between 15 and 24 without any gender consideration. By 2007, Iran had a student-to-workforce population ratio of 10.2%, standing among the countries with the highest ratio in the world.
Payame Noor University is a large public university in Iran, with its headquarters in Tehran. Established in 1988, is a legal body under the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Payame Noor means "the message of light" in Persian.
Tafresh is a city and the capital of Tafresh County, in Markazi Province, Iran. As of the 2011 census, its population was 25,912.
Birjand is a city in the Central District of Birjand County, South Khorasan province, Iran, and serves as capital of the county. The city is known for its saffron, barberry, jujube, and handmade carpet exports.
Garmsar (Persian: گرمسار, also Romanized as Garmsār is a city in the Central District of Garmsar County, Semnan province, Iran, and serves as capital of the county.
Darab — formerly Darabkert, or Darábgerd — is a city and capital of Darab County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 54,513, in 13,279 families.
Torbat-e Jam is a city in, and the capital of, the Central District of Torbat-e Jam County, Razavi Khorasan province, Iran, and also serves as capital of the county. It is one of the ancient cities of Greater Khorasan.
Sarab is a city in the Central District of Sarab County, East Azerbaijan province, Iran, and serves as capital of the county. At the 2006 census, its population was 42,057 in 11,045 households. The following census in 2011 counted 44,846 people in 13,353 households. The latest census in 2016 showed a population of 45,031 people in 13,953 households.
Sarvestan is a city and capital of Sarvestan County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 16,846, in 4,094 families.
Sayyid Shamseddin Hosseini is an Iranian politician, who served as the minister of economic affairs and finance from 2008 to 2013.
Komijan is a city and capital of Komijan County, Markazi Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 7,358, in 2,004 families.
Mohammad Jahromi is a former Iranian governor and politician who served as minister of labor and social affairs from 2005 to 2009.
Ali Rabei, also known by his nickname, Ebad, is an Iranian politician and former intelligence officer. He served as the Minister of Labor from 2013 to 2018. He was an adviser to the former President Mohammad Khatami from 1997 to 2005. On 4 August 2013, he was nominated as Minister of Labor to the incumbent cabinet by Hassan Rouhani. He is also a Payame Noor University professor.
Damavand College was founded in 1968 as a private institution of higher learning for women and run by an international community and by American Presbyterian Missionaries. In 1974, it became a public college, offering a four-year intercultural program in liberal arts.
Hossein Farhady is an Iranian applied linguist with more than forty years of studying, teaching and researching in and out of Iran. He has worked at universities including University of Teachers Education, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran in Iran, UCLA, Texas A &M, USC, and University of Shenandoah in the United States, American University of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, and Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey. During his professional career, he has trained many applied linguists and university lecturers.
Mohammad Ali Sarlak is a professor of organizational behavior management at Payame Noor University (PNU), and the former chancellor of this university as the largest public university in Iran. He introduced the concept of the organization’s face for the first time in a multi volume reference book entitled The new faces of organizations in the 21st century. Sarlak was honored by the Iranian house of humanities thinkers in 2019.
Ebrahim Alipoor (born September 4, 1989 in Baneh, Iran is an Iranian-Kurdish photographer.
Salamat Azimi is an Afghan politician who served as Counter Narcotics Minister.
'Dezful University of Medical Sciences' (DUMS) is one of the leading universities in Khuzestan province and the whole country. This university is affiliated to the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran.
