Iran can provide 90,000 foreign students with education
The Head of the
Consular Affairs Authority for Students in the Students Affairs Organization
from 129 nationalities are studying at Iranian universities, but Iran can
provide 90,000 foreign students with education.
Farid Rahimi Naddaf told IRNA in an interview that the universities of Iran are
scheduled to educate some 75,000 foreign students by the end of Iran's Sixth
Development Plan, according to experts, the country needs to create appropriate
educational infrastructure, develop diplomacy, and advertisement.
Foreign students studying in Iran can help the country to introduce its culture
to the world and develop diplomacy, and it can also help expansion of the
Iranian-Islamic culture; thus increasing the academic level of universities is
required to increase student recruitment.
According to official statistics, a total of 57,000 international students are
in Iran.
source : ABNA24
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