Plans to include handicrafts in school syllabus
Iran's Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization is holding consultations with Education Ministry to incorporate handicrafts in schools' syllabus once the plan is approved.

Announcing this, the organization's deputy head for handicrafts affairs, Hossein Hatefi-Farmad said that craftmanship is currently taught at the pre-school level and it also will be undertaken in middle and high schools as a subsidiary subject.
Meanwhile, plans are also underway to teach handicrafts at nine higher education centers, he said.
Referring to virtual education in traditional courses, Hatefi further said that five of them are currently taught online.
In this regard, a scientific seminar on handicrafts will be held in Tehran and a festival of handicrafts film and photo will also be organized in Isfahan next year.
Some ten computer games on handicrafts will be marketed this year, he said, noting that 100 houses for promoting handicrafts are to be set up in the villages.
Referring to national registration of handicrafts to prevent illegal copying, Hatefi noted that 80 cases have been drawn up for the purpose.