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Published on: 5/12/2009
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"Right now in Afghanistan there's not a very clear formula for what it takes to become a teacher, BESST is collaborating with the Ministry of Education to standardize teacher qualifications," said Thea Anderson, project manager for BESST at Creative Associates
International, Inc. which is implementing the project.
BESST is a follow-on to the Afghanistan Primary Education Project (APEP) which Creative Associates implemented successfully from 2003 to 2006.
Under APEP, more than 170,000 overage students, many of which were girls, were educated in accelerated learning classes, and thousands of teachers were trained in non-formal education methodologies.
"Currently many of the teachers in the APEP accelerated learning classes as well as other NGO administered classes are not formally certified by the Ministry of Education.
BESST will work to link many of these teachers into the formal ministry system," said Anderson.
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A functional democracy requires a population able to be informed and make informed judgments about government and the issues it should address," Anderson said.