Mawlawi Aziz Ahmad Ryan, Director of publica-tions and spokesman for the Ministry of Education, says the plan to reopen girls ‘schools has been final-ized and there is high hope that girls’ schools will reopen in the new school year.
In an interview with BNA, Mawlawi Aziz Ahmad Ryan said that with the advent of the Islamic Emir-ate, all girls ‘and boys’ schools were closed due to the Corona virus epidemic. According to him, girls’ schools above the sixth grade have been temporarily closed and efforts are underway to reopen all girls’ and boys’ schools for students in the first to the great level of grades in the new school year.
He says that according to the new plan, schools and classes for girls and boys will be separated, with male teachers teaching in boys and female teachers in girls. Regarding the revision of the curriculum of the Ministry of Education, Mawlawi Ryan says that at present there is no plan to revise the curriculum, But the Ministry of Education intends to make a series of minor changes to social issues in the coming years. According to him, there will be no change in scientific topics, but if the content of social themes is in conflict with religious and national values, minor changes will be made to them.
On the other hand, the director of publications of the Ministry of Education says that many schools in Afghanistan are not restored and a large number of schools have been destroyed as a result of the wars of the past years But the Ministry of Education is paying particular attention to the construction of new school buildings, and efforts are underway to repair schools that were partially destroyed during the war years. Regarding the issue of imaginary teachers and schools, which was one of the main challenges of Afghanistan’s education in the previous govern-ment, he says that the studies of the Ministry of Education show that there were not only imaginary teachers and schools, but also imaginary students.
Mawlawi Ryan said that the Ministry of Education has set up monitoring teams as part of a special program to review all public and private schools and to investigate the issue of imaginary teachers, imaginary schools and imaginary students.
According to him, the process of monitoring schools has started in a rudimentary way, Ministry of Edu-cation monitoring teams are currently inspecting schools in Kabul, and schools in the provinces and districts are scheduled to be monitored next spring. He says that in addition to forming monitoring teams, the leadership of the Ministry of Education has also traveled to some provinces and conducted its own assessments of the state of schools, But with the start of the new school year, the process of re-viewing and supervising schools is set to begin in earnest. Regarding the salaries and benefits of teachers, the director of publications of the Ministry of Education says that the salaries and benefits that Afghan teachers receive are very small and cannot turn the wheel of their lives. He said the shortage of teach-ers’ salaries is a legacy of the previous government but there are efforts to attract foreign aid to increase teachers’ salaries and assistances. He added that UNICEF has promised to co-operate in paying teachers’ salaries and assistances. Mawlawi Aziz Ahmad Ryan says “dialogs are underway with UNICEF to agree on a specific mechanism for pay-ing salaries and assisting Afghan teachers. He says the Ministry of Education has paid teachers ‘salaries of five past months from the government budget, and given the promise of the international community and UNICEF, there are high hopes that teachers’ salaries will increase next year.
Regarding the increase of the capacity of the profes-sional staff and the increase of the quality of education.—Agencies
