National Economy, Higher Education & Reproduction of Poverty

In the fiscal 2019-20 and 2020-21 university entrance exams, 84% of those admitted with a rank below 3,000 and 86% of those admitted to majors, such as medicine, dentistry and pharmacy, were from the top three high-income deciles, while the share of remaining seven deciles in these majors was not more than 14%. 
This indicates how the country has failed in nurturing the talents of children belonging to lower deciles. This was stated by Nasser Zakeri, an economist, in a write-up for the Persian daily Shargh. A translation of the text follows: 
In the 1960s and 1970s, development theorists talked of a vicious cycle that propagates poverty in underdeveloped societies. Poor families cannot provide adequate educational facilities for their children; as a result, their children usually fail to achieve high scientific and professional status to escape the clutches of poverty.