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Secondary education

With severe poverty, high levels of illiteracy and few schools in rural areas, Afghanistan suffers from a severe shortage of educated teachers.

To address this need SCA started a pilot project in 2002 to support secondary schools. By supporting secondary schools with integrated teachers' training courses as a compulsory subject in upper grades, the aim is to recruit teachers among grade 12 graduates and raise the overall quality of the teaching force. By integrating subjects related to teacher training into the curriculum of 10-11, the possibilities arose to recruit students graduated from grade 12 as teachers to work in rural primary schools. SCA support secondary level of the 34 of SCA model schools.The support to secondary schools includes pedagogy and child psychology in grade 10 and 11, math and science materials, provision of basic computer literacy to students and school libraries. The projects achievements between 2002 up to 2005 has been successful - one example is that 100 % of the girls who graduated from Baghlan Jadid and Keshim girl schools have been recruited as teachers by Minister of Education (MoE).