DUSHANBE, April 29, 2010, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan’s educations sector has needs in reforms but we must find out to what an extent the country is ready for these changes, Ms. Gulchehra Rahmanova, legal program manager, Center for Child’s Rights, said in an interview with Asia-Plus, commenting on introduction of a 12-year secondary education in Tajikistan.
She noted that even Kazakhstan that had left Tajikistan far behind in the education sector achievements considered that it was not yet properly ready for introduction of the 12-year secondary education. To introduce the 12-year secondary education it is necessary to have enough number of teachers, develop and publish textbooks, and re-equip schools,” Rahmanova said.
According to her, Tajikistan is not yet ready for introduction of the 12-year secondary education. “If it is not ready, it is still premature to speak about such reforms,” Rahmanova noted.
The Majlisi Namoyandagon (Tajikistan’s lower chamber of parliament) yesterday endorsed the bill requiring amendments to the country’s education legislation. Under these amendments, Tajikistan will introduce the 12-year secondary education in 2016.
According to the data of the Ministry of Education (MoE), 3,810 high schools with totaling 1.789 million students now function in Tajikistan.
