KABUL (SW) – Salam Afghanistan Media Organization (Salaam Watandar Radio) announced today the findings of its survey on the level of academic motivation and students’ hope for the future of education and job after the rule of the Islamic Emirate, at a press conference.
In this survey, 275 students and 38 university professors in 18 public and private universities from five major provinces of the country (Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, Balkh and Nangarhar) were interviewed.
Gul Mohammad Gran, the head of Salam Watandar news department, presenting the results of this survey, said the purpose of conducting this survey was to see the students’ situation and their academic motivation, as well as their hope for their academic and professional future, and to use this data to improve the situation and the system.
In this survey, the state of students’ hopes for the future of education and work, as well as the motivation of university professors for teaching and scientific research, have also been examined.
About 56 percent of the professors who participated in this survey said that they have no motivation to teach or their motivation has decreased. 74% of professors said that with the rule of the Islamic Emirate, the amount of opportunities and conditions for research and preparation of course materials has decreased or they have no opportunity for it at all.
Despite all this, Salam Watandar also made suggestions in this press conference to solve the challenges expressed in this survey.
Beheshta Mohammadi, the editor of the Farsi section of Salam Watandar, said that the Islamic Emirate, while providing research grounds for researchers and reporters about higher education, should also investigate why and how the academic motivation in higher education institutioons has decreased and work to solve it.
“We have suggestions for the Ministry of Higher Education, to researchers and reporters. Our first proposal to the Ministry of Higher Education is to leave the field of research open in higher education. Unfortunately, we faced many problems while conducting this survey.”
The participants of this meeting and media activists welcomed this survey and called such research effective and useful in solving the country’s problems.
Seyed Ali Asghar Akbarzada, a member of the Federation of Journalists and Media Organizations of Afghanistan, said this survey is really a great work of investigative journalism. “This report provided a line of work for the Ministry of Higher Education.”
Meanwhile, the representatives of the Ministry of Higher Education who participated in this meeting assure the efforts to solve the challenges that have caused a decrease in motivation in higher education.
Sidas Ismail Rouhani, the head of the Ministry of Higher Education’s Student Affairs, assured that if needed, the government will create a committee in this field.
It should be noted that in this survey, students of 18 prestigious universities of the country (9 private universities and 9 public universities) were interviewed.
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