Ghani beats school bell, opened new educational year

Afghan President beats school bell on Tuesday and officially started the new school year.

President Ashraf Ghani, his predecessor Hamid Karzai and many high ranking officials participated at the occasion.

Ghani in his address to inaugurate new educational year vowed to boost education and literacy rate in his country, said,” I would like to held a national discussion between the teachers and students to avoid woes, I accept the woes and my objective is to solve the current problems and separate education from the policy”.

He also emphasized to enhance the quality of Afghanistan’s education system.

“Our curriculum must be completely changed and we must focus on the quality of the education system in the country”, President Ghani stressed.

Speaking on the occasion, Afghan Minister for Education Assadullah Hanif Balkhi, said more than 1.1 million new students including 41 percent of girl students would enroll in school during the new educational year in Afghanistan.

A number of teachers are optimistic about the new commitments of the president while he himself admit his failure to fulfill his commitments for the last one year.

Sayed Naser Askarzada, an Afghan teacher said,” we are happy if the President could fulfill his commitment, and this is a good hope for the future of Afghanistan”.

Afghan President also expressed his gratitude to international community for supporting Afghanistan over the past more than a decade, beat the school bell and formally opened new educational year in his country.

Reported by: Ali Asghari