ACADEMIC Didar Zowghi describes meeting one of her students in person last year as amazing. "I will never forget the first day that I met her, I was in tears, actually," she said. The student, Maryam (not her real name), 28, had been accepted as a postgraduate student at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), where Zowghi teaches software engineering. It was a meeting that was not supposed to be possible. On the basis of one exam question answer in Iran, Maryam was denied access to higher education. By listing her religion as Baha'i - the country's largest non-Muslim religious minority, which is not recognised by the government because it is perceived as heretical - she was not given her test scores needed to complete her application…