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The Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), popularly known as the ''Bahá'í Open University'', is a university in Iran designed and managed by the Bahá'í community for Iranian Bahá'ís as a Bahá'í school for those who are excluded from access to higher education in their country. Founded in 1987 and offering 17-degree programs, the BIHE offers academic programs of learning and research in the sciences, the social sciences and the arts. In 2011 there were 475 volunteer faculty that includes accredited professors from universities outside Iran who assist as researchers, teachers and consultants. == Context == Bahá'ís value education highly. By 1973 the Bahá’ís in Iran were the first to have achieved a literacy rate of 100 per cent among women under the age of 40, despite the national literacy rate of 15 per cent. After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the new Islamic government fired Bahá'í professors from all universities and expelled Bahá'í students. In 2007 the government established a new university admission system where only individuals who identified themselves with one of the four religions – Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism – recognized by the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, were given admission though systematic expulsion of students and faculty became clear to Bahá'ís by 1983.〔supra note 113, at page 259 of 〕 The BIHE was established in 1987 to allow Bahá'í youth an opportunity to obtain a university-level education. The ''New York Times'' called it "an elaborate act of communal self-preservation." Initially, Muslim and Bahá'í teachers and professionals taught the courses primarily through correspondence; more recently, BIHE also offered a number of courses online. The student population in 1998 is reported to have had 900 students with ten subjects at the Bachelor's level.〔 2012 estimates are of 50,000 students having gone through the courses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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