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School Day 24: Iran-UK-US
Students in Iran, the UK and the US are linking up to share their experiences on Wednesday 6 December.
Read about the schools taking part and then use the postform at the bottom of the page to send your questions.
The Islamic Azad University was founded in 1982 as a private university in Iran.
It teaches undergraduates and postgraduates and has 300 branches all over the country as well as four branches overseas - in Dubai, England, Lebanon and Zanzibar.
More than a million students are enrolled in the university, with a majority being women.
It offers hundreds of study courses. So far 1.9m people have graduated from this university.
Many commentators credit the Islamic Azad University with changing post-revolutionary Iranian society. Its vast spread throughout the country, with campuses in small provincial towns, has enabled many young people - especially women - to attend university where in the past their parents would have been reluctant to send them away from home.
And it has proved popular because it is independent of government unlike Iran's other major universities.
The chancellor of the university is Dr Abdullah Jassbi, who obtained his Phd in England. He is a moderate technocrat close to former President Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Since the new government of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad came to power there has been increasing political pressure on the Islamic Azad University with President Ahmedinejad trying to remove the chancellor.
Many liberal university professors forced into early retirement in state universities in the last year by the new government have found employment in the Azad University.
Meet the pupils:
The Islamic Azad University has 300 branches across Iran
The Iranian students taking part in the link-up are studying English literature and translation.
They want to ask their American and British counterparts things like: what happens when they get married, what they think about Iranian students, what they usually do at weekends and during the evenings, what kinds of music they listen to and whether they want to visit Iran.
As this is their first such experience, they hope it will be an opportunity to show another face of Iran - different to the usual bad news that is reported.
They really want to make friends with their foreign counterparts and invite them to Iran to get to know each other.
Read about the schools taking part and then use the postform at the bottom of the page to send your questions.
The Islamic Azad University was founded in 1982 as a private university in Iran.
It teaches undergraduates and postgraduates and has 300 branches all over the country as well as four branches overseas - in Dubai, England, Lebanon and Zanzibar.
More than a million students are enrolled in the university, with a majority being women.
It offers hundreds of study courses. So far 1.9m people have graduated from this university.
Many commentators credit the Islamic Azad University with changing post-revolutionary Iranian society. Its vast spread throughout the country, with campuses in small provincial towns, has enabled many young people - especially women - to attend university where in the past their parents would have been reluctant to send them away from home.
And it has proved popular because it is independent of government unlike Iran's other major universities.
The chancellor of the university is Dr Abdullah Jassbi, who obtained his Phd in England. He is a moderate technocrat close to former President Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Since the new government of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad came to power there has been increasing political pressure on the Islamic Azad University with President Ahmedinejad trying to remove the chancellor.
Many liberal university professors forced into early retirement in state universities in the last year by the new government have found employment in the Azad University.
Meet the pupils:
The Islamic Azad University has 300 branches across Iran
The Iranian students taking part in the link-up are studying English literature and translation.
They want to ask their American and British counterparts things like: what happens when they get married, what they think about Iranian students, what they usually do at weekends and during the evenings, what kinds of music they listen to and whether they want to visit Iran.
As this is their first such experience, they hope it will be an opportunity to show another face of Iran - different to the usual bad news that is reported.
They really want to make friends with their foreign counterparts and invite them to Iran to get to know each other.
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