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Millennium Development Goals Achievement Progress Report: Tajikistan the field. They believe that girls need to get prepared for marriage and that there is no reason to educate them. They feel that education is not necessary for the hard work in the field. In the neighbouring village, there is a general secondary school (11 grades). In this school, some boys, who have graduated from our 9 grade school, continue their education, but so far, none of the girls have continued their studies in 10-11 classes at the school located in a neighbouring village.
Based on materials from the survey «Education for girls”, UNESCO, 2006.. Source: Employment within the context of human development, the Republic of Tajikistan – National Report on Human Development 2008-2009.
Findings and recommendations: •
Ensure data collection on indicator “Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach last grade of primary” in the framework of NCS.
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Increase expenditure on teachers’ salaries and ensure that their decent wages are considered a matter of priority.
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Take decisive actions to create a basis for inclusive education to increase the school enrollment rate by including disabled children and children from other vulnerable groups.
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Ensure the quality of textbooks and their appropriate content, as well as their compliance with current requirements.
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Achieve universal access to Internet in both urban and rural schools/settlements.
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Achieve a rapid increase in accessibility to computers and average access to IT services at schools.
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Guarantee the provision of free meals twice a day for primary and basic school children.
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Integrate general secondary and vocational education curriculum more consistently.
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Develop a network of childcare pre-school facilities to enable women to combine family and professional responsibilities. It is important for those women with the motivation to receive a higher education but who cannot implement it because of family constraints.
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Enhance the efficiency of incentives to continue education after primary school and compulsory basic education.
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Implement specific measures for overcoming territorial differentiations in school attendance of boys and girls. More attention should be given to the territories with the largest gender gap in secondary school attendance and high girls’ drop-out rates.
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Improve the education of the present generation since it may affect education of the next generation and thus provision of overall coverage will help to avoid negative consequences in the future. Taking into account the possibility of exponential growth of the educated and non-educated population all reasons which may lead to non-education and affect them indirectly and by this ensure their social inclusion into society should be considered. The population with low level of education is easily influenced by different religious trends. So this aspect of the problem should be given particular attention.