Iran’s Universities Offer to Admit 100 Students from War-Affected Syria

Rasa - Iranian universities have voiced readiness to admit 100 war-stricken Syrian students for the new academic year, Syria’s Ministry of Higher Education announced on Saturday.

News ID: 423191

Date: 03 September 2016 - 19:14

RNA - “Those Syrian university students who have suffered the most during the civil war will be given the vacant places at the Iranian universities,” the Syrian Higher Education Ministry said.

The Syrian ministry said that those students who wish to study at the Iranian universities must pass their documents to the Ministry’s Department of Cultural Relations.

It said that the Syrian students will be given places under an agreement on cultural exchanges between the two countries. This applies to all faculties except for medicine.

To receive a budget place in an Iranian university, the student must be Syrian, aged 22 years or less, and have a bachelor degree.

The Syrian ministry has allocated some places to families of those killed in the war against terrorists.

Since the onset of the Syrian crisis in March 2011, the terrorists groups have inflicted massive damage on Syria’s cultural infrastructure, including its universities and artifacts.

The Iranian authorities on different occasions have voiced the country’s readiness to help Syria renovate itself.

In a relevant development in April, Iranian Vice-President and Head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization Massoud Soltanifar underlined the country's preparedness to help the Syrian government to mend the artifacts damaged and ruined by the ISIL terrorist group in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur).

Soltanifar voiced Iran's readiness to help repair Palmyra in a letter to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova.

"Given the Islamic Republic of Iran's responsibility with endangered Syrian cultural heritage and the needed help for repairing and reconstructing the global heritage of Palmyra, the Islamic Republic of Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization stresses its readiness for partnership in protecting, restoring and repairing the movable and immovable cultural heritage in Syria, specially in Palmyra, which have been endangered," the letter said.

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