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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Oct. 25 – Some 90,000 students have been forced to leave their studies for a
variety of reasons, including poverty and child labour,
in the northern coastal province
of Mazandaran,
the state-run daily Khorrasan reported on Monday.
“The number of individuals who have quit their studies is considerable. This
is very obvious in Mazandaran province since
presently 90,000 students have abandoned their studies”, the daily wrote.
It quoted a researcher as saying that “cultural poverty, high costs of education,
use of teenagers and children as part of the work force, various financial
difficulties, and lack of financial capability, resources for continued
education, and incentives for studying, as well as the existence of
illiteracy in society” were to blame.
The daily said that the students that had been forced to abandon their
education were between the ages of 11 and 17.
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