Final UN report records planned completion of 370 more schools

The final UN report recorded 9,300 damaged or destroyed classrooms in 2,637 schools across five war-affected provinces. It also reported 362 schools in other provinces affected by missile attacks.

About 450,000 pupils and students from the five war-affected provinces were reported to have fled elsewhere. The final UN report linked this displacement to double shifts in host-region schools and...

Iran gave high priority to primary-school rebuilding and offered incentives for teachers to return to remote war-affected areas. Authorities reported enough teachers for schools already reconstructed,...

The final UN report stated that 1,422 damaged schools had returned to service over the preceding three years. This recorded substantial reconstruction progress while further school rebuilding remained...

The final UN report recorded completed reconstruction of 12 technical and vocational training centres at a reported cost of 21,000 million rials. Restoring training capacity supported the wider...

The final UN report attributed about 20 percent of the school reconstruction effort to foundations and trusts working alongside government. It also described voluntary assistance as a major...

In devastated rural areas, the report warned that schools could not reopen until viable communities were re-established. It expected later reconstruction phases to proceed more slowly than earlier...

The UN report identified shortages of building materials as a major obstacle to restoring education. In devastated areas, replacing housing, basic services and infrastructure was necessary alongside...

The final UN report stated that Iran needed 40,000 new primary teachers annually while teacher-training centres graduated about 25,000. It also described a national secondary-teacher shortage and...

Iran’s Education Ministry sought international expertise for school mapping. The UN team also suggested comprehensive human-resource analysis and anticipated rural teacher shortages as displaced...