QURGHON TEPPA, July 17, Asia-Plus — Schools in the southern province of Khatlon are experiencing an acute shortages of teachers of different disciplines, the Khatlon education directorate head Hasan Murodiyon noted at a board meeting of the education directorate on July 16.
According to him, the province now has 1,708 teaching vacancies. Murodiyon noted that of 1,579 graduates of higher educational institutions in the country sent for work with schools in Khatlon, only 533 or 33.2 percent have worked with schools.
He said that the education directorate is trying to provide schools in the province with enough number of teachers.
He noted that this year, 354 young people, including 195 young women, from Khatlon had entered higher educational institutions in Tajikistan by presidential quota. “It is also necessary to give teachers having secondary or incomplete higher education an opportunity to take correspondence course,” Said Murodiyon, “But local authorities have not supported us in tackling this problem.”
According to the Khatlon education directorate, 24 new schools are currently being built in the province.
The education directorate head hailed an initiative of the Shahritus district head Kholmurod Rahmonov to tackle the education problems in the district. “An association of parents set up in Shahritus is funding construction of additional classes and renovation of local schools,” said Murodiyon, “”Local entrepreneurs and senior priests of mosques have also seconded this initiative through providing totaling more than 200,000 somonis for renovation of schools and construction of additional classes. At present more than 35 additional classes are being constructed in Shahritus.”
Murodiyon expressed confidence that the problem of shortage of schools in Shahritus could be tackled in the coming years.
According to the Shahritus head, 14 leavers of Shahritus schools have entered higher educational institutions in Tajikistan this year by presidential quota. “Another 91 school leavers from Shahritus will enter Tajik teachers’ training institutions under support of local authorities and on graduation from them they will return to the district to work with schools here,” Kholmurod Rahmonov noted.
