INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN - The first national event of future schools will be held on Tuesday with the objective of promoting making use of knowledge-based
innovations in schools.The Organization for Development, Renovation, and Equipment of Schools in cooperation with Barekat Foundation has
actually organized the event in line with the present years motto set by Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as The
Year of Production: Knowledge-Based and Job-Creating
The occasion will highlight the function of technology in updating schools along with educational and sports spaces.The Majlis (Iranian
Parliament) has actually approved a special spending plan to support building schools nationwide.Accordingly, the Ministry of Education
should invest one percent of the earnings of state-run companies and the net earnings of banks and personal organizations to develop schools
in deprived areas in line with the objective of promoting instructional justice.Half of the schools throughout Iran are developed with the
involvement of benefactors, Mohammad Reza Jafari, CEO of the School-Building Donors Association, has said.About 40,000 donors are active and
involved in building schools across the nation, he specified, including, over 49 percent of schools, totaling up to 150,000 class, in the
nation are developed with the involvement of school-building benefactors.Construction of sports spaces, libraries, and developing clever
schools are among the present needs in school building and construction, he further highlighted.School building benefactors have actually
allocated an overall of 34 trillion rials (almost $85 million) to construct educational areas across the nation over the previous [Iranian
calendar] year (March 2021-March 2022), ISNA reported.According to Nasser Ghofli, the director of the Association, 400 school-building
charities have actually been registered in the country so far.Due to the promo of the culture of participation in school construction,
school-building donors set aside 39 trillion rials in 2015, compared with 170 billion rials in 1998 when the Association of School-Building
Donors was established, Education Minister Yousef Nouri has said.Iran has numerous school-building benefactors totaling up to 1,000 people
outside the country.Since 2017, the government has actually contributed more than 60 trillion rials to school-building donors, he added.The
Brick-by-brick national strategy began in the year 1399 (March 2020-- March 2021), intending to bring in public involvement for school
construction in denied locations even by buying a brick.In December 2022, Reza Asadifar, an authorities with the Vice Presidency for Science
and Technology stated presently 7882 knowledge-based firms are running in the country.The fields of biotechnology, farming, food industries,
chemical innovations aircraft upkeep, steel, gas, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and medication, oil, electronics and
telecommunications, information technology, and computer system software application are among the sectors in which researchers in
innovation companies are working.MG
