The ceremony will be held on 21stof month of May at Islamic Open University and is expected to be attended by several high ranking civilian and military officials.
The head of Iran's Expediency Council, Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjai will grant the students, university professors and research fellows the special designated prized know as ‘Imam Khomeini memorial award’.
It is noteworthy that the Islamic Open University was established more than three decades ago with proposal put forward by Ayatollah Rafsanjai to Imam Khomeini. The founder of the Islamic Republic agreed to proposal and evev also donated and allocated a special personal fund for the establishment of the university.
Later years, the Islamic Open University was expanded and thousands of students graduated in various fields and became builders of nation. The university also is now ranked a great position among regional and world academic institutions.
Imam Khomeini had launched an all-out campaign in order to spread education at all levels for all strata of people following the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
The founder of the Islamic Republic issued special guidelines and recommendations in order to improve the country’s literacy rate and promoted a wide-scale education campaign for masses and elites.
The great spiritual leader ordered the relevant authorities to consider education as important as basic healthcare and social welfare.
Due to Imam’s special attention to education sector and wise educational policies, literacy rate was dramatically improved and special opportunities were initiated at primary and higher educational levels.
Iran accomplished great scientific and academic achievements under the wise leadership of Imam Khomeini and became the most literate country in the Middle-East and became a role model for the whole Muslim Ummah.
The great Imam’s motto of education for all was seriously adopted and free education with great quality was provided in all well-developed or less developed parts of the country.
The results for this campaign were soon tangible and the Iranian universities were expanded and their ranking was upgraded in the international system.
Iran was ranked high in fields of humanities, social sciences, research, scientific education and medical education and the achievements were enormous.
Imam himself was a poet, jurist, mystic and philosopher and a great scholar. His services in spreading knowledge will be remembered for generations to come and several Islamic and other nations can adopt it as role model in order to effectively eradicate illiteracy, poverty and inequality for the societies.
Imam Khomeini was inspired by the holy teachings of the holy prophet and his infallible successors who encouraged the education and gave great importance to knowledge. The holy Quran and our religious traditions put great emphasizes on gaining knowledge and wisdom.