Category: Education

I REMEMBER the wooden floor. It makes sense, as little children are closer to the floor, and I was at the time just that. It was my first foray into the world, my first time without my mother, without my twin brother and it began at the Mama Parsi Girls’ Secondary School. I don’t remember… Continue reading A school of our own: Mama Parsi School in Karachi

Announcing Formation of the Zoroastrian Faculty Network (ZFN) – A Joint Project of the GWG and WZCC Dr. Farrokh Mistree has been a long term advocate for WZCC to develop a Zoroastrian Faculty Network (ZFN) that would empower Zarathushti students to create economic, cultural & intellectual value. The Global Working Group represented by Farrokh Rustomji… Continue reading Zoroastrian Faculty Network Formed

SOAS University of London has secured a £5 million donation to create the world-leading SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies. The donation will enable the creation of the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies, a resource dedicated to enhancing the research, learning and teaching in the field of one of the world’s oldest… Continue reading SOAS awarded £5million gift to create world-leading Institute of Zoroastrian Studies

UCLA established a new interdisciplinary center focused on the study of ancient Iran and its influences on contemporary Iran. The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World is the first center in the Western Hemisphere focused on ancient Iranian languages, history and religions, according to a UCLA press release published Tuesday. The center… Continue reading Pourdavoud Center for ancient Iranian studies to launch spring quarter

Sanaya Bharucha, 28 years old, from Pune, India; works as Senior Manager – Training and Support with Teach for India, was selected  as part of the United Nations Youth Panel for Financing Global Education. Sanaya attended the launch of the Report by the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity at the United Nations in… Continue reading Sanaya Bharucha Speaks at United Nations Youth Panel for Financing Global Education

The University of Toronto will now offer Avestan and Pahlavi language courses at the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, thanks to a $250,000 USD commitment from the Persian Heritage Foundation. The limited-term lectureship is named in honour of Ehsan Yarshater, a professor emeritus of Iranian studies at Columbia… Continue reading Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina To Be Yarshater Lecturer At University of Toronto

Lord Karan Bilimoria and Bahram S. Bekhradnia, two distinguished Zoroastrians in the United Kingdom were awarded honorary Doctorates from the University of East Anglia. In an announcement congratulation the duo, Malcolm Deboo, President of the Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe writes: Dear ZTFE Members & Well-wishers You will agree with me that the probability of… Continue reading Lord Karan Bilimoria and Bahram S. Bekhradnia Awarded Honorary Doctorates from University of East Anglia

UPDATE: This article was erroneously published again. The original publication date is April 2013. Mama Parsi Girl’s High School was decorated with garlands of marigold, rangoli and handmade posters to celebrate its 95th anniversary on Monday. “It amazes me that the building looks exactly the same when we used to study here in 1990s and… Continue reading With 95 candles on cake, Mama Parsi still going strong

The US based non-profit Foundation for Excellence (FFE www.ffe.org) has developed a financially sustainable method for higher education for the smart and talented youth in India. The San Francisco-based Foundation for a Sustainable Future (FSF www.sustainable-future.org) has developed a supplementary program for economically-challenged Indian Parsi youth, and seeks to: identify and nominate Parsi scholars to… Continue reading Funding Parsi Higher Education in India