Hanafi says higher education curriculum fails to meet ‘today’s needs’

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan’s (IEA) second deputy prime minister Abdul Salam Hanafi said Saturday that the country’s higher education curriculum does not meet today’s needs and cannot be used to solve the country’s problems.

Speaking at an event, to introduce the new minister of higher education, Hanafi said that nothing has been done in terms of improving the higher education curriculum in the last twenty years.

“The higher education curriculum is not reflective of today’s needs and we cannot use it to solve the problems in the country; the Ministry of Higher Education must pay serious attention [to it],” said Hanafi.

Abdul Baqi Haqqani, the former minister of higher education, said at the meeting that Islamic subjects taught at educational institutions were not comprehensive.

The newly appointed minister, Neda Mohammad Nadim, meanwhile said that he would try to improve the education curriculum in the country and emphasized the need to prevent “disturbances” and improve the capacity of the young generation.

“I will do everything to make things better,” said Nadim.

IEA officials also said they would support the private education sector along with public institutions.