There are 170,000 students who are not attending primary school.
The head of the Education Monitoring and Evaluation Center announced that 170,000 primary school students are not receiving education in the country.
According to HRANA news agency, quoted by Mehr, Mohsen Zarei, head of the Center for Monitoring and Evaluation of Education, said on the sidelines of a one-day trip to Semnan province: "In the academic year 1400-01, unfortunately, through monitoring, we noticed that 210,000 students were left behind in the first grade alone across the country."
He stated that after identifying the students, efforts were put on the agenda to recruit them, emphasizing: "With the efforts made, we were able to witness the return of 39,000 students to educational spaces."
The head of the Education Monitoring and Evaluation Center stated that, despite this, another 170,000 of our students are still out of school, adding: "There are various reasons for this out of school, but unfortunately, it must be said that the coronavirus situation has exacerbated it and made the work of the Ministry of Education difficult."
Source: HRANA
