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15 Jun 2017 - 10:31
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15 Jun 2017 - 10:31

It is clear in this Era of Technology and progress that Education is an under developed country, (or maybe worse than who knows) Education is extremely important for its children and youngsters as well.

We are watching that standard of Education system in Afghanistan is worst of its kind and if it will not change, Economy of Afghanistan will go down daily and Afghanistan cannot become a fully developed country until the System and structure of Education is improved or totally changed.

Today, I am here with some suggestions for the Improvement in the current Education system of Afghanistan for a better future because according to the Article of Forty-Three and Chapter Two of constitution of Afghanistan:

“Education is the right of all citizens of Afghanistan, which shall be offered up to the B.A. level in the state educational institutes free of charge by the state. To expand balanced education as well as to provide mandatory intermediate education throughout Afghanistan, the state shall design and implement effective programs and prepare the ground for teaching mother tongues in areas where they are spoken”.

But as we see today in Afghanistan that the condition of schools and universities of Government sector is worst as compared to Private schools and universities. This is mainly due to the syllabus and the method of teaching in both Government and Private sector.

We ourselves have created double standards for education like different education levels for different classes of people (i.e.: middle class, lower class and upper class people), because lower class people could not afford such costly fees of private sectors.

Let me highlight some main points for improvement of Education system in Afghanistan:

Career Counselling:

Today biggest problem in Afghanistan is that student doesn’t know what to do next in his/her life so he/she goes to undirected path and fails in life. There should be people for career counselling of children so that they could get to know that what they have to do in future.

These people should be appointed in both Government and private sectors. Parents should also understand what a child wants to do in life and they should not impose their decisions on children.

Let’s suppose sometimes a child wants to be a doctor but parents try to impose that he should must become an engineer or sometimes child wants to become an Engineer but parents impose that he should become a Doctor.

In such cases child loses his heart and stops hard work and passion in his studies and try to start Cramming and at the end of the day he becomes a failed person. This is called a hidden curriculum created unnecessarily by the parents.

Change the system:

Government have to take specific steps to end cramming system in education from Government as well as Private sector and implement system of practical work, so that every student can gain more knowledge by doing research on that specific topic or subject, unlike cramming system where student have to memorize everything for short period of time which Teacher gives him/her.

Equality and Quality in Syllabus:

Government should implement same course and syllabus in all provinces and Ministry of education (MOE) to make sure that everyone gets same education.

Secondly Government should order Private as well as Government schools and universities to implement one syllabus in classes and there should be no double standards.

Training for Teachers:

Government should implement higher standards for choosing Teachers (i.e.: at least Masters level teachers) to make sure that they are teaching according to some standards.

At least one Teachers Training session should be held in every six months where professionals should teach some better ways to teachers for teaching. In this way we can get more concentration on improvement of teaching methods.

Peace and prosperity are not impossible in Afghanistan, if our local and national leaders pay respect to their national interest!

View expressed in this article are of the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Pajhwok’s editorial policy.

 

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Khalil Mohmand is Lecturer in Business Studies & Economics at Stanmore College, London UK.

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