Professional Teachers

 Written by: Naqeeb Ahmad Azizi

According to the information provided by the Ministry of Education of Afghanistan, among 170 thousand teachers in this country, about 27 % percent of them are professional and the remained are not. This issue causes some problems for the teachers and students.

AEPO’s writer/producer has talked to some people about this issue.

A person who doesn’t want to mention his name, says, “There were 3 vacant posts in our village school. We have well-educated teachers in the village but those 3 posts were sold each for 25 thousand Afghanis and these newly hired teachers are not enough educated.”

Muhammad Kabal, a resident of Ghorband district, Parwan province says, “One of my sons is a seventh-grade student and the other third-grade student. They always complain from the absence of their teachers and say that their teachers have not well-educated and they are linked to some elders of the village and they do not have education documents.”

How people find a solution to this issue?

Anargul, a resident of Jangikhel village, Shakardara district, Kabul province says, “We had professional and educated persons in our village and we shared their documents with the Ministry of Education. They evaluated the documents of the mentioned persons and then they hired them as the teachers in our village school.”

Nooria Nahzat, the spokesperson, Ministry of Education of Afghanistan says, “Hiring of teachers are done by the independent administrative reform and civil service office.

 We recognize free posts for teachers and then we announce them. The applicants should be graduated at least from teacher training institutions and their documents would be evaluated by the commission.

If anyone has any complaint, they could share with our educational monitoring branches. We have also distributed our phone numbers among the people. If anyone has any complaints, they could call and the minister of education listens to complains himself and he finds solutions for them.”