Iran's Government Has Big Plans for the Country's Universities

Inside Iran's Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, Mahmoud Mollabashi, deputy minister of higher education in charge of student affairs, sits with a stack of notes on his lap, flanked on both sides by chador-wearing female assistants ready to provide him with any facts or figures not immediately at hand.

He is eager to discuss the government's ambitions for the country's extensive higher-education system, which has an annual operating budget of $2-billion and includes, with

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