From the next academic year (starting September 23, 2015) ‘life skills’ will be introduced in the undergraduate curriculum. Hamid Yaghoobi, president of the Health & Counseling Organization at the ministry of education said the proposal to teach life skills to students had been pending since 2000 before it was finally approved by the Planning Council at the ministry, ISNA reported. He added that the topics of the course would include “mindfulness, solidarity, stress management, communication skills and anger control, among others.”
