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According to Ali Bagher Zadeh, head of the Organisation of Literacy in Iran, there are 8,800,000 illiterates, and 10 million with low literacy rate.<\/p>\n
The Census Centre of Iran published its statistics which shows that 5,569,440 of the illiterates are women, and there are 241,000 illiterate children between the ages of 6 and 9 in Iran.<\/p>\n
The statistics do not include those immigrants and their children who are denied education in Iran.<\/p>\n
Free education for all has been one of the demands of teachers in Iran. Teachers and their organisation, Teachers’ Association, have been campaigning to ensure that everyone has access to free education.<\/p>\n
The Coordination Committee of Teachers’ Association in Iran has called for a national strike on 14th<\/sup> and 15th<\/sup> October. In the statement for the strike, teachers’ representatives have called for an end to the exclusion of children from education, an end to the privatisation of schools, and an end to tuition fees.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n #WPIranNews #FightForLife #TeachersStrike #IlliteracyInIran #StrikingWorkersInIran<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"