KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Higher Education has issued a statement urging all university professors who have left the country following recent developments to return to Afghanistan.
It states that in the absence of prosperity, the country’s education system remained incomplete and for that the Ministry invites all academic staff who have left Afghanistan to return to the country.
The Ministry of Higher Education statement highlighted that Afghanistan remained the common home of all ethnic groups living here. “… and we are all responsible for its development. We respectfully ask all the professors to return to the goal of development and progress of the country.”
The Ministry of Higher Education has emphasized that it is committed to paying all the due benefits of university professors to them.
The statement also said that the leadership board of the Ministry of Higher Education has announced the packages for the purpose of hiring new academic staff, and that the ministry considers it as a national and religious duty to provide employment and facilities for academic staff.
After the fall of the previous government, the establishment of the Islamic Emirate and the closure of public universities to students, a large number of university professors and academic staff left the country.
A number of Kabul University professors had told Salam Watandar that they had been asked to leave their posts after the Islamic Emirate appointed a new head of the institution and fired its former head. They had said that there was no guarantee for the future of the educated class and the academic staff, and that their many years of efforts had been wasted.
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