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Chapter Three: Future Strategies And plans - To make the one-year pre-primary education course compulsory - To reform the structure of organization and management, in order to create
unity among authorities and officials of pre-primary education in Iran (Ministry
of Education and State Welfare Organization) - To support all five – year children (one year prior to starting primary
education) to attend preparatory education. - To build specific educational spaces according to the requirements of
different age groups in pre-primary education centers. - To train and to employ educational experts, administrators, teachers and
other specialists for pre-primary educational centers. - To utilize available facilities of IRIB ( Islamic Republic of Iran
Broadcasting) in every province plus national mass media to reinforce and to
facilitate pre-primary education. 2.Primary Education 2.1: Enrollment of all out- of- school children - To establish new schools in deprived areas using governmental and
non-governmental resources. - To employ local people with academic qualifications as teachers of deprived
areas. - To supply pupils of deprived areas with required textbooks, stationery,
clothes and nutrition, free of charge, as a motivation to attend schools. 2.2: To promote the quality of education - To expand the education system’s internal efficiency by identifying the
obstacles and eliminating them as well as reinforcing facilitating factors and
making use of the relevant results in educational programs to increase promotion
rates and length of study and to reduce repetition rates in each grade. - To expand education system’s external efficiency by changing and revising
curricula’s, topics and the contents of the textbooks so that the quality and
quantity of materials would match the daily requirements of pupils as well as
their aptitude and potential capabilities. - Emphasis on employing specialized teachers, reduction in the overcrowding
of classes, improvement and development of educational equipment and educational
aids, management stability and employing experienced educators in counseling. - Growth and development of counseling and guidance services with respect to
specific students needs, for the students of different fields of study through
development and enrichment of special counseling centers. - Balancing the privileges of the employed teachers and those having the same
degrees in each educational course, on the basis of obligatory hours of work and
each course specialties. - Using the motivating methods to increase teachers employment coefficient
through establishing allowance exclusively for deprived areas, and increasing
teaching fee. - To employ educational aids and new teaching approaches, to devise
innovative methods, and to apply them at teaching centers. - To establish an educational T.V channel and to publish a specific
educational newspaper in order to facilitate the communication of latest
findings, concepts and experiences related to students. - To employ efficient and specialized manpower in educational planning,
management and teaching. - To supply educational centers with modern teaching aids. - To perform applied researches in order to identify factors leading to
students’ underachievement and lagging behind and to render essential plans
and ways based on the results obtained from those researches. 2.3: To expand people’s participation in the process of education. - To administer a school-oriented plan in order to decentralize the education
system and to expand people’s participation in education process. - To vest more authority in provincial administrators of the Ministry of
Education so that by regarding the specific conditions of every province they
can put their efforts to eliminate any probable educational problem. - In 6 months after the approval of the rule third economic’ Social and
Cultural Development Plan, the Ministry of Education with cooperation and
approval of the Administrative and Employment Affairs Organization is
responsible to accomplish the following steps: Revising and reorganizing and organizational promotion of educational
planning in Provinces under the title of "Educational Organization of the
province" for accomplishing de-centralization policy and providing
circumstances to transfer most of the responsibilities to the provinces, with
omission and insertion of the equivalent and unnecessary activities, so that it
would increase efficiency of educational affairs in provinces with respect to
the legal authority in administrative, employment, financial, educational and
research activities. - To provide necessary conditions and facilities to attract people’s self
– contribution and the participation of private sectors in education. - To attract the cooperation and contribution of parents to increase their
contacts with school to pursue and to pay attention to their children’s
education. - To expand the activities of councils of education in provinces and
townships. - To motivate municipalities to have grates contribution in building
educational centers. - In 6 months after the approval of the third plan, the Ministry of Education
is responsible to prepare and present the bill of improving the law relevant to
establishment of schools within the following framework: B. Resources - To improve non-profit schools by providing and offering required facilities
to establish such schools. - To attract the financial contribution of people and benefactors in
education. - Paying special attention to absorb finance resulting from endowment, waqf,
gift and… to support people’s participation in providing the finance of
Ministry of Education, especially in establishing educational spaces by applying
necessary measures such as propagation, encouragement and persuasion of people. - To utilize available mass media such as radio, television and newspapers to
transfer correct information to parents and to improve people’s participation. 2.4: Designing an Education Management Information System (EMIS) Designing a comprehensive data base: There is no particular center responsible for collecting information related
to all educational indicators in the Ministry of Education. Different centers
based on their own tasks collect and record information and statistics. So
collecting and processing information on needed indicators is not done in a
harmonized, centralized way. Since the collection of information is not
computerized, designing an EMIS center seems necessary. - Public and private resources. - International aid 3. Adult Education 3.1: Campaign against illiteracy to eradicate it completely A. Planning - Changing class-attending education to correspondence education and
semi-attending education - Illiteracy eradication in age group 10-40 - Consolidating and fixing the literacy skill and preventing relapse to
illiteracy - Enrolling children in formal education. - Encouraging and exerting some limitations to lead the illiterate adults
(under 40 years) to literacy classes. Making use of public and private resources to campaign against illiteracy. - Mass media such as radio, television and the press. - International resources 3.2: Holding follow up programs for neo - literates - Increasing the knowledge of neo-literates to make them more cooperative in
personal, family and social responsibilities - Providing technical-vocational education to impart the required skill in
people to enter the job market. - Developing the culture of neo-literates by encouraging them to read books
and newspapers, broadcasting special programs for new literates from and
television radio and providing correspondence education for them. - Public and private resources - Equipping libraries throughout country with the necessary resources. - Mass media - International funds 3.3: Developing non-formal education A. Planning - Encouraging and facilitating the foundation of scientific, educational and
artistic institutes by issuing necessary licenses to private sector. -Allocating special advantages for the above mentioned institutes. -Providing non-formal education through radio and television programs. B. Resources - Public and private sector resources - Radio and television END