Children left out of education have been identified face to face – Mehr News Agency Iran and world’s news
According to Mehr news agency, the meeting of the Supreme Literacy Support Council was held under the chairmanship of the First Vice President after a 6-year hiatus, and the allocation of the maximum budget of the Literacy Movement Organization and efforts to eradicate illiteracy in the country were emphasized.
Yousef Nouri, the Minister of Education, gave a report on the state of literacy in the country based on information from the Statistics Center in terms of illiteracy, neo-literacy and literacy, the gap between urban and rural literacy and its decrease from 34% at the beginning of the revolution to 11% last year. The difference between the literacy rate of men and women was from 23% at the beginning of the Islamic Revolution to 6% last year.
Nouri went on to describe the actions of the literacy movement and cooperation with various organizations and bodies to identify and cover the literacy movement in the country, the mission of the literacy movement organization in the three educational levels of the literacy period, the transition period and the consolidation period and the activities ahead of the literacy movement in The school-oriented format, new technologies, partnerships, accelerated the work of provinces with high illiteracy population.
In this meeting, a report on the performance of the integrated student system and the Shahid Mahmovand plan in order to identify school dropouts by province and 729 educational districts was presented and it was announced that children aged 6 to 11 years who dropped out of school would be identified face-to-face and registered in the system. have been established to start the courses for this population of the country to cover the first grade and higher courses.
It was decided in this meeting; The credits of the literacy program can be seen in the second round of the government’s provincial trips.
It was also emphasized that the Literacy Movement Organization should pay attention to skill training along with literacy in the new environment of the Literacy Movement in the country by employing retirees, students, benefactors and volunteers in the field of teaching.
Based on the approvals of this meeting; All agencies and ministries were required to provide their database to the literacy movement and in addition to requiring the target governors to hold Supreme Council meetings, the maximum allocation of funds for the literacy movement organization was included in the 1402 budget and also in the 7th plan to develop the plans of this organization with emphasis Eradication of illiteracy in the country will be included.