Year: 2019

Persia recognised by Awards for All to advance integration in the UK

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Persia will be offering a new series of outstanding learn shops, designed for newly-settled Iranians in the UK, especially women, starting in November 2019.

In response to a survey highlighting integration as the top concern among Iranians settling in the UK, the six-part series will assist participants to integrate into the life of the greater society and become protagonists of a culture of prosperity and progress hallmarked by learning.

The learn shops on immigration & integration will offer high-quality training in 21st Century soft skills of:

  1. Consultation and collaboration
  2. Balancing rights with responsibilities
  3. Achieving success in family and societal dynamics and relationships
  4. Interpersonal and intercultural communications

The learn shops will include mentoring, as well as information about education, entrepreneurship, community involvement, and employment opportunities.

Persia Offers Education Workshops

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Persia’s bespoke Character and Civic Education training is the first education project of its kind to help advance Iranian-British children raised in the UK. The training helps parents and other carers to provide a healthy environment for optimum and holistic development of the next generation. It also provides educators with an opportunity to set up local Character & Civic Education Clubs.

This emerging field in education is of increasing importance throughout the globe, including here in the UK. For more information please see the following report by the National Foundation for Educational Research: https://www.nfer.ac.uk/leading-character-education-in-schools-case-study-report/

Additional resources on this important field are published through Persia’s social media on a regular basis.

For further information or to host a training in your local area please email us at info@persia.education

2019 Recipient of the Persia Mirzakhani Scholarship

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A Ph.D. student at University College London’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Negar Shahrezagamasaei, has been awarded the prestigious 2019-2020 Persia Mirzakhani Scholarship. Her outstanding work at UK’s top research institution focuses on mechanobiology. In addition to her doctoral contributions to vasculogenesis (formation of new blood vessels), Ms. Shahrezagamasaei is a published author. While completing her Master’s degree, she published her first novel. In addition to a second novel, she has co-authored a research paper for an upcoming issue of the Journal of Nature. She hopes to pursue her post-doctoral research at MIT or the Francis Crick Institute here in the UK as part of her work on cancer treatment.

Persia Educational Foundation established the Mirzakhani Scholarship in remembrance of the first woman to win the prestigious Fields Medal in mathematics, the late Stanford Professor, Maryam Mirzakhani. The inaugural scholarship was awarded last year to Mahtab Farahbakhsh, a Ph.D. student at UCL working to help children with visual impairment.

The Mirzakhani scholarship is GBP 1500. Each year, an independent panel selects the recipient of the Persia Mirzakhani Scholarship from among eligible applicants. The results are announced on 3rd May, marking the anniversary of the birth of the late Maryam Mirzakhani (3 May 1977 – 14 July 2017).

A UK-registered charity, Persia Educational Foundation is a non-governmental UK-registered charity. Its mission is to provide scholarships and educational opportunities to Iranian descent students throughout the UK.

Community education workshops

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The workshop was hosted at Tarbiat School and featured Dr. Nahid Hosseini (Manoto) and Ms. Maryam Keshavarz (Farsophone). The well-attended workshop focussed on raising healthy children, as well as educational opportunities for a successful life in the UK.

We are pleased to offer our next workshops as part of a series of community events designed to improve the education and advancement of Iranians in the UK.

The next workshops will take place on:

  • Saturday, 18 May, at Hafez school
  • 9 June and 7 July in collaboration with Farsophone Association at Tarbiat school

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