DUSHANBE, December 18, Asia-Plus — The board of the Ministry of Education (MoE) is holding its meeting in Khatlon’s Qumsangir district today to discuss state of higher educational institutions and other educational facilities situated in the Qurghon Teppa region of Khatlon.
Noilsho Nouraliyev, a spokesman for a MoE, told Asia-Plus that Education Minister Abdujabbor Rahmonov went to the region yesterday and on his way to Qumsangir he visited a number of general schools in the region.
The board meeting participants include deputy ministers, senior representatives from the MoE and heads of the city and district education directorates in the Qurghon Teppa region of Khatlon.
The meeting in Qumsangir is considering problems that were sharply criticized by President Rahmon during his visit to the province in October.
We will recall that during an address to a meeting of regional administrators of Khatlon in Qurghon Teppa on October 16, the president harshly criticized the pace of the region’s overall socioeconomic development in the first nine months of the year. The head of state also criticized poor state of education sector in the province.
As it had been reported earlier, a similar board meeting of the MoE was held in Kulob on December 15. The meeting discussed state of affairs at Kulob State University, branches of some Tajik higher educational institutions in Kulob and local general schools.
Inspection of educational facilities across the country was launched on November 22.
According to the Ministry of Education (MoE), 28 higher educational institutions with totaling 146,219 students now function in Tajikistan.
