Iranian students from Sharif and other top schools, such as the University of Tehran and the Isfahan University of Technology, have also become major players in the international Science Olympics, taking home trophies in physics, mathematics, chemistry and robotics...
Iran's high-school system, places a premium on science and exposes students to subjects Americans don't encounter until college.
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These fascist Islamic
by Farhad Kashani on Wed Aug 13, 2008 09:13 PM PDTThese fascist Islamic leftists are so happy with the low standard the IRI has forced them to accept, that they are resorting to make up facts and invent reality to satisfy themselves!
These cold hearted un-Iranians accept anything Islamic leftists and Islamists tell them, including that “Iran has top universities”! Even when they’re confronted with figures and numbers, as usual, can’t go wrong, they connect it to “Zionism”!
Who are they trying to fool?
so sad, abarmard. You give
by mollatazi (not verified) on Wed Aug 13, 2008 04:54 PM PDTso sad, abarmard. You give the idiom "grasping at straw" a new meaning!!
in bichreha cheshme didan nadaran...
by Anonymous8 (not verified) on Wed Aug 13, 2008 04:28 PM PDTSUT being the best undergraduate preparation in the world in EE is nothing new. It has been acknowledged by all the top departments in the US and UK.
It is interesting why this simple and neutral fact should disturb people so much. It is as if a group of Zionists are paid to make sure nothing positive is ever associated with Iran. This already happens in corporate owned broadcast and US Government sources. But now they want websites to also go along?
It will probably be just a matter of time. I don't see JJ holding out against this coordinated and obvious Zionist assault on his website.
The worse is a bugger who believes he's intelligent
by Hajminator on Wed Aug 13, 2008 06:14 PM PDTسوار چون تو نباشد به نزد مرد حكيم
اگر تو اين پيكان لنگت برون بري ز وحل
There are two hordes of barbarics who try to take the hope from us: Mojahedeen khar and Zionists. That's because they see that the virani of iran can't be achieved while their miserable lifes.
WOW! If the intention of
by Farhad Kashani on Wed Aug 13, 2008 02:33 PM PDTWOW! If the intention of this article/posting, is not to twist reality and live in state of denial, I don’t know what is!
Here is the list of top 100 universities in the world. 8 out of top 10 in the U.S, including Harvard! Iran has ZERO.
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Global_Universities
Furthermore, if Iran has “top universities in the world”, why do most Olympiad winners and top students in Iran flee the country to come to the States and Europe, Australia, N Zealand? Hmm???? To what level is some Iranians gonna take deception and fabrication of reality?
Aghabmoondeha
by Keyvan Sabett (not verified) on Wed Aug 13, 2008 02:19 PM PDTIf you Islamic/Lefty Aghabmoondeh actually read the article, you will see the tragedy behind the students of Sharif. Nothing to be proud of.
Below are the relevant parts from the article:
The university was founded in 1965 by the shah, who wanted to build a topnotch science and technology institute. The school was set up under the guidance of MIT advisers, and many of the current faculty studied in the United States (during the shah's era, Iranians made up the largest group of foreign students at U.S. schools, according to the Institute of International Education).
Several Sharif alumni point to one other powerful motivator. "When you live in Iran and you see all the frustrations of daily life, you dream of leaving the country, and your books and studies become a ticket to a better life," says one who asked not to be identified. "It becomes more than just studying," he says. "It becomes an obsession, where you wake up at 4 a.m. just to get in a few more hours before class."
Iran's success, in other words, is also the country's tragedy: students want nothing more than to get away the moment they graduate. That's a boon for foreign universities and tech firms but a serious source of brain drain for the Islamic republic. There simply are not enough quality jobs for graduates in Iran, says Ramin Farjad Rad, another Sharif grad ('97) who's now an executive at Aquantia in Silicon Valley. What's worse, star students who stay in Iran and try to launch businesses complain that predatory government officials demand a cut of their profits or impose unnecessary obstacles. Thus many Iranians who can't make it to the West head to Dubai instead. As one Sharif grad in the Persian Gulf port city puts it, "Here, our education is properly valued. We are given freedom to succeed. In Iran, we are blocked."
Such frustrations augur ill for Iran's future. True, it's produced a startling number of top students in recent years. And the country's history is rich with achievement, featuring Avicenna (also known as Ibn Sina), the medieval world's greatest scientist; Muhammad al-Khwarizmi, the ninth-century inventor of the mathematical algorithm (the basis of computer science), and Omar Khayyam, the famed mathematician and astronomer. That's a fine legacy. But unless the Islamic republic changes directions soon, all of that history and potential could be squandered.
Fred
by Hajminator on Wed Aug 13, 2008 09:41 AM PDTWhy you trust the IRNA agency that you don't trust usually only on this occasion and, that over the original Newsweek article published on the land of AsMaBehtaroona?
Good enough to fool the willing
by Fred on Wed Aug 13, 2008 08:15 AM PDTIslamist/Anti-Semites and their likeminded lefty allies can fool themselves as they wish, but should not expect others to be as willing. The clumsily circumcised Islamist Republic News Agency (IRNA) version of the Newsweek article cited here leaves out some highly embarrassing crucial details spelled out in the original. The Islamist republic’s virtual reality is only good enough to fool the willing.
Re: Islamist boasting (to: Fred)
by soufi on Wed Aug 13, 2008 06:51 AM PDTFred,
I am sorry that Iran and Iranians' progress is making you sad. Most of us Iranians are very happy about it. May be you should go to Tel Aviv and see whether there are few more homes to boldoze or few more palestinain children to kill or put in jail! Apparently that makes you VERY happy.
Erooni
by Hajminator on Wed Aug 13, 2008 06:10 AM PDTIn Tehran universities, children of professors, martyrs and some basijis have special quotas for enterance. The percentage varies from one univerity to another. I know that the son of a pilot whose father was considered as a martyr used this to enter the university of Tehran but the guy has a IQ near 130 and can enter the university inside or outside of Iran he wants (He prefers to stay inside)
These exceptions do not alterate the high level of Shareef, one example is what I mentionned before. Another is what is written in the article (have you read it?); when these students come in a foreign university they pass exams with brillance. I'm not a Haji but a professor in a university in Paris and had one such student, so believe me that what is mentionned is not a fake.
I am proud of IRANIANS!
by Maryam Hojjat on Wed Aug 13, 2008 02:26 AM PDTespecially the ones who accomplish inside Iran with all restrictions.
Iranians are verry smart and capable that is one reason that we have been rubbed from freedom. In past thrity years Iranian in diaspora been most successful minorities in the world.
Yes, very smart
by yinzer (not verified) on Tue Aug 12, 2008 09:01 PM PDTYes, many Iranian's are very smart, always have been. Yet there's no place in IRI for such people after graduation. Hopefully they will return once the IRI government has learned how to govern.
Iran has a lot of potential.
Hajminator
by Erooni (not verified) on Tue Aug 12, 2008 08:44 PM PDTWhat percentage of the students in the universities that you mentioned are from sahmiyeh if you know what I mean.As you know they get their degrees for free and they do not even have to learn anything.By the way are you really a haji or it is just a name.
Masha-allah
by Shining Head on Tue Aug 12, 2008 08:15 PM PDTCheshme Doshmanan Koor !
baba read the title
by Sia khoshtip (not verified) on Tue Aug 12, 2008 06:27 PM PDTIt's coming from newsweek. Savaad nadaari mageh?
The actual article is here:
//www.newsweek.com/id/151684
Now let me hear you masalan erooni
Sharif University equiavalent of MIT
by Anonypishi (not verified) on Tue Aug 12, 2008 06:21 PM PDTWhen it comes to science Iran towers many countries around the globe. But some of us refuse to see it.
Erooni
by Hajminator on Tue Aug 12, 2008 06:07 PM PDTToro que darim doshmin mikhaym digueh chikar?
Students from Shareef have won several Robot cup competitions which employ robotics, mecanics and different domains in artificiel intelligence and that with nothing else than their own intelligence. The ranking of universities are based on criteria like the number of nobel prices they own, the publication of articles in journals with high impact factors, ... If you consider that for example IEEE don't publish any scientific articles of iranian scientifics and different examples like that ... you can understand why iranian universities are not in this list instaured by cheshm abyia that you adore so much. But if you consider the fact that it is just the iranian genius which keep us safe from extinction after n repeated attacks you'll think twice before writing chert-o-pert.
I'm proud of talented
by Sara B (not verified) on Tue Aug 12, 2008 05:04 PM PDTI'm proud of talented Iranian people, and it has nothing to do with the regime. They have made tremendous progress against all odds and under restrictions. Good for them, and sorry for those who cannot see!
The gift of mullahs to the world:
by Hajminator on Tue Aug 12, 2008 04:54 PM PDT... the iranian brain
This is a joke!
by Erooni (not verified) on Tue Aug 12, 2008 04:43 PM PDTI was reading somewhere that Iranian universities are not even among the best 1000 universities in the world.Just guess where the information coming from .It is coming from nowhere but the IRIB.What else do you expect from them?Inflation under control,no unemployment,no drug use,no prostitution, no human trafficking,no crimes no other lack of anything?Lets all go back to Iran then.
joooon
by XerXes (not verified) on Tue Aug 12, 2008 03:40 PM PDTLove it when the jealousy burns the 'others'.
Islamist boasting
by Fred on Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:31 AM PDTIslamists simply can’t see the forest for the trees and boast about the Islamist republic’s disgraceful brain-drain. Next their “presstv” will be celebrating their thriving white slavery trade and officially sanctioned and regulated sale of body organs by the Islamist- made desperate souls.