KABUL (SW) – The National Conference for Strengthening Higher Education by the Ministry of Higher Education has begun at Kabul University.
In this three-day conference, the officials will vote and talk about ways to strengthen the education system.
In this conference, nearly 75 articles about curriculum, quality assurance, scientific research, online education and other related matters to strengthen the education system will be presented by university professors, said the MoHE.
Osama Aziz, the president of Kabul University, said in the opening program of this conference: “The process of collecting articles started a few months ago, and nearly 75 articles from different universities of the country have reached us.”
In this conference, the officials of the Ministry of Higher Education assured the government’s commitment to the growth of higher education.
Nada Mohammed Nadim, the acting head of this ministry, said: “You professors are devoted to the value of knowledge. We must try to improve universities from a scientific, spiritual and external point of view, and we all must realize our responsibilities in this regard.”
At the same time, some officials of the Islamic Emirate criticize the country’s higher education system and want to revise some of the rules.
Qalandar Ebad, ating minister of public health, in his speech at this conference, said: “Students have graduated from the medical field, but during the training, they never saw the hospital and the patient with their own eyes. It’s really unfortunate.”
Atiqullah Azizi, deputy minister of information and culture, said: “Our basic need is that the education system should be revised because science and technology have not stopped in such a way that we can continue the installation and system of the past decades”.
This comes as female students are prohibited from going to universities and their future education is uncertain – a situation that has caused reactions and criticisms from the world community.
Noorul Haq Anwar, the general director of the Islamic Emirate’s Administrative Affairs Department, emphasized in this conference that the Islamic Emirate does not pay attention to the wishes of others. “We want to interact well with the world, but we can’t just imitate. We cannot lose our intellectual independence and we will not be fooled by their false arguments”.
It should be mentioned that in the last year and a half, due to the restrictions imposed by the Islamic Emirate and economic problems, a number of private universities have stopped their activities.
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