DUSHANBE, February 25, Asia-Plus  -- 200 teachers without special pedagogical education have graduated from a special externship, Asia-Plus has learned from Parviz Saidov, a spokesman for the project management unit of the Ministry of Education.

According to him, 144 of them have already passed their examinations and 103 teachers from Vahdat (70) and Fayzobod (33) were given certificates on Saturday, February 23.  41 teachers from Khatlon’s Vose district will be given their certificates on March 1, he said.   

 Saidov noted that those 200 teachers were competitively selected from 344 teachers working with schools in Vahdat, Roghun, Kulob, Vose, Fayzobod and Nourobod. 

“They studied two years for an external degree,” the spokesman said.

In the meantime, 56 teachers from Roghun and Nourobod could not arrive in Dushanbe to take examinations because of bad weather conditions and examinations for them have been postponed until summer.      

This two-year externship was organized for teachers without special pedagogical within the framework of the education development support program.  

We will recall that according to the Ministry of Education, Tajikistan now has 6,865 teaching vacancies.