DUSHANBE, May 25, Asia-Plus -- 76,000 leavers at 3,757 schools throughout Tajikistan heard the symbolic last bell marking school graduation.

 Deputy Education Minister, Fayzullo Khushvakhtov, has told Asia-Plus that in Dushanbe alone, 6,870 eleventh-form pupils left schools today.  

Besides, some 100,000 ninth-form pupils in the country are at the cross-road whether to continue studying at school or to go vocational-technical colleges of lyceums, according to the Tajik education official.