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'''Education in Afghanistan''' was significantly improved under the rule of [[Mohammad Zahir Shah|King Zahir Shah]] (from [[1933]] to [[1973]]){{Fact|date=December 2007}}, making primary schools available to about half the population who were younger than 12 years of age, and expanding the secondary school system and the national university at [[Kabul]]. Despite those improvements, large percent of the population remained illiterate. Beginning with the Soviet invasion of [[Afghanistan]] in [[1979]], successive wars virtually destroyed the education system. Most teachers fled the country during the wars. By the middle of the 1990s, only about 650 schools were functioning. [[Image: |
'''Education in Afghanistan''' was significantly improved under the rule of [[Mohammad Zahir Shah|King Zahir Shah]] (from [[1933]] to [[1973]]){{Fact|date=December 2007}}, making primary schools available to about half the population who were younger than 12 years of age, and expanding the secondary school system and the national university at [[Kabul]]. Despite those improvements, large percent of the population remained illiterate. Beginning with the Soviet invasion of [[Afghanistan]] in [[1979]], successive wars virtually destroyed the education system. Most teachers fled the country during the wars. By the middle of the 1990s, only about 650 schools were functioning. [[Image:Afghan school girls in 2002.jpg|thumb|250px|Afghan school girls in 2002.]] |
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In 1996 the [[Taliban]] regime banned education for females, and the [[madrassa]] (mosque school) became the main source of primary and [[secondary education]]. After the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, the interim government received substantial international aid to restore the education system. In 2003 some 7,000 schools were operating in 20 of the 34 provinces, with 27,000 teachers teaching 4.2 million children (including 1.2 million girls). Of that number, about 3.9 million were in primary schools. When [[Kabul University]] reopened in 2002, some 24,000 students, male and female, enrolled. Five other universities were being rehabilitated in the early 2000s. Since the end of the dogymatic Taliban era in 2001, public school curriculam have included religious subjects, but detailed instruction is left to religious teachers. In 2003 an estimated 57 percent of men and 86 percent of women were illiterate, and the lack of skilled and educated workers was a major economic disadvantage. |
In 1996 the [[Taliban]] regime banned education for females, and the [[madrassa]] (mosque school) became the main source of primary and [[secondary education]]. After the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, the interim government received substantial international aid to restore the education system. In 2003 some 7,000 schools were operating in 20 of the 34 provinces, with 27,000 teachers teaching 4.2 million children (including 1.2 million girls). Of that number, about 3.9 million were in primary schools. When [[Kabul University]] reopened in 2002, some 24,000 students, male and female, enrolled. Five other universities were being rehabilitated in the early 2000s. Since the end of the dogymatic Taliban era in 2001, public school curriculam have included religious subjects, but detailed instruction is left to religious teachers. In 2003 an estimated 57 percent of men and 86 percent of women were illiterate, and the lack of skilled and educated workers was a major economic disadvantage. |
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Education in Afghanistan was significantly improved under the rule of King Zahir Shah (from 1933 to 1973)[citation needed], making primary schools available to about half the population who were younger than 12 years of age, and expanding the secondary school system and the national university at Kabul. Despite those improvements, large percent of the population remained illiterate. Beginning with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, successive wars virtually destroyed the education system. Most teachers fled the country during the wars. By the middle of the 1990s, only about 650 schools were functioning.
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In 1996 the Taliban regime banned education for females, and the madrassa (mosque school) became the main source of primary and secondary education. After the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, the interim government received substantial international aid to restore the education system. In 2003 some 7,000 schools were operating in 20 of the 34 provinces, with 27,000 teachers teaching 4.2 million children (including 1.2 million girls). Of that number, about 3.9 million were in primary schools. When Kabul University reopened in 2002, some 24,000 students, male and female, enrolled. Five other universities were being rehabilitated in the early 2000s. Since the end of the dogymatic Taliban era in 2001, public school curriculam have included religious subjects, but detailed instruction is left to religious teachers. In 2003 an estimated 57 percent of men and 86 percent of women were illiterate, and the lack of skilled and educated workers was a major economic disadvantage.
By 2006, over 4 million male and female students were enrolled in schools throughout Afghanistan. At the same time school facilities or institutions were also being improved, with more modern-style schools being built each year.
See also
- List of universities in Afghanistan
- List of schools in Afghanistan
- Help Afghan School Children Organization
References
External links
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