"Today we are going to talk about jobs," says the English language teacher to his class in Tehran.And it's better jobs they're all after. They're preparing for what's known as the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) exam - a requirement for emigration to many countries like Canada and Australia.
Everyone in the class wants to go abroad.
| This is especially true for Iranian medical students. |
The number of educated young Iranians trying to leave the country appears to have increased in the last year since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office judging by the numbers sitting the IELTS exam. The figures have increased two-and-a-half times this year over the same period last year, according to the Australian administrators of the test.