Syrian and Iranian Ministries of Education signed on Thursday a Memo of Understanding (MoU).
Tue 28 January 2020:
Iran has gone into fierce competition with Russia over Syria’s education sector.
This was most recently reflected in a Damascus statement on Russia offering 500 scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate programs in various fields for the academic year (2020-2021).
The announcement was a few days after Iranian Education Minister Mohsen Hajimirzaei voiced his country’s efforts to introduce the Persian language to schools in Syria.
Hajimirzaei stressed the importance of including the Persian language in the Syrian educational system in order to strengthen the prospects of joint cooperation.