According to the Department of Education, there are 12,500 students in Kurdistan Province who have dropped out of school.
As reported by Kolbarnews, a total of 12,500 students in Kurdistan Province have been identified as out of school. Of these, about 2,000 students are from lower secondary school, 10,400 from upper secondary, and the remaining from primary school.
Hojatollah Mousavi, Deputy for Secondary Education at Kurdistan’s Department of Education, highlighted the lack of educational resources in the province, but stressed that the reasons for school dropouts are not limited to educational infrastructure. He cited early marriage of girls, cultural factors within certain families, economic hardship, lack of motivation due to unemployment, and migration as contributing factors.
The exclusion of children from education, especially in underprivileged regions, remains a serious challenge in the field of education and children’s rights in Iran. According to the Statistics Center of the Human Rights Activists in Iran, at least three million students across the country were deprived of education in 2024.
