Wednesday March 23, 2016
Kabul (BNA) President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, while inaugurating the new academic year in Amani High School, said, “Ringing the bell of education is the sound of tranquility, stability and dynamism, a statement from his office said on Monday.
Congratulating the New School Year, the president vowed to do more for development of education sector, as the statement quoting him said the lands for residential unites expected to be distributed among the school teachers have been laid at the remote un-appropriated areas, the statement said. “The government is working on the new plan to help the related officials provide lands at appropriated areas in both the capital and provinces of the country for the school teachers,” said the president vowing to bring basic changes in the education sector to help beef up the quality.
The statement quoting the president went on as saying that the women’s partnership should be paid serious attention in the education ministry’s leadership and that the number of education ministry’s directorates would be reduced by even more than the half. He said the ministry of education was not a target, but a means to help raise the education quality, the statement quoted adding the current curriculum was hindrance before the quality education of the students and that the scholars, civil society entities and other related sectors’ role were too important in this respect. He thanked the international partners for providing cooperation with the Afghan education and asked all the related organs to create single opinion and programs from the short-term policies for safety of the ministry of education. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani blamed a failed sources’ management to have been behind corruption by the 450 school building development councils and said the ministry sources’ management should be a symbol of accountability and transparency across the country. According to the statement, a commission had been set to return the education ministry’s usurped lands and that the ministry of telecommunication had been asked to provide the entire schools’ with optical fiber and pave the way for the students to use the modern technology’s facilities.
The president was quoted by the statement as saying raise in the education quality was not only the responsibility of the ministry of education, but also of other social organs, the schoolchildren parents and the government. This year, special focus would be made on the education and the related ministries should play their roles in this field duly, the statement concluded. According to another report, a number of Pul-e-Charkhi incurable prisoners have been sent to their families, under a decree form the president. Four of eight prisoners medically reported to have been in critical health condition (incurable) have been handed over to their households, under a transparent commission, with the remaining four would be taken to their families after completing the guarantee letters’ process.
