Educational Research Fund Up 32% | ||
Educational Research Fund Up 32% About 52.12 billion rials have been allocated for educational research in the current Iranian year (started March 21). The official said research is a major infrastructural component of educational development, for which it is important to identify outstanding students and teachers in schools and scientific centers. Qadami emphasized the necessity of using the capabilities of elites and exemplary personalities, pointing out that the center has been established to support research activities. Addressing the same conference, Director General of West Azarbaijan Education Department Vali Samarqandi said 360 research plans were executed in schools of the province in the past two years. “The research plans implemented by school students and teachers have been published in three books,” he said. Recently, Iran’s Materials and Energy Research Center was listed among the world’s best ones. Ali Asghar Tofiq, the head of the research center, said that according to the 2011 report of Scimago Institutions Rankings (SIR), the research body is one of the world’s top research institutions, IRNA reported. The center is affiliated to Iran’s Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. Research can be defined as the search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, with an open mind, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method. | ||
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