DUSHANBE , July 26, Asia-Plus - The next meeting of the board of the Ministry of Education is set for July 28.  

According to information from the attestation and licensing department of the Ministry of Education, the ministry’s board is scheduled to discuss the results of attestation carried at Tajikistan ’s Institute of Tax and Law and work carried out by the institute administration to remove shortcomings revealed during the inspection.  

The board meeting is aiming to consider the issues related to renaming this institute and closing a number of its departments for lack of necessary specialists for training students in those disciplines.   

According to the source, it is also planned to reduce a number of students to be accepted for studying at this institute.  

As it had been reported earlier, attestation carried out at the Institute of tax and Law in April-May this year recorded numerous instances of violation of law and other shortcomings. More than 4,000 students have been expelled from Tajikistan ’s Tax and Law Institute since the beginning of this year; some 95 percent of them were expelled for non-attendance at the institute.  In January this year, 23,548 students studied at Tajik Tax and Law Institute, while according to the license given to the institute, some 3,500 students should study at it.