Afghanistan Ministry of Education (MoE)

Our Situation Today
More than 5.4 million children are enrolled in schools today, nearly 35% of them girls, compared to a little more than a million 5 years ago and almost no girls.

Still, half of our school-age children are estimated to be out of schools with significant gender and provincial disparities.

Number of teachers has grown 7 fold, but only 22% meet the minimum qualifications of Grade 14. Only 28% are female located primarily in urban areas.

There is no new curriculum for secondary school. In the last five years curriculum development has concentrated on the first six years of school only.

Although more than 3,500 schools have been built only 40% of schools have buildings. Thousands of communities have no easy access to schools.

Thousands of children are being taught in cross-border madrassas where fundamentalism is rampant.

Nearly 6% of schools have been burnt or closed down due to terrorism in the last 18 months. Between 30,000-40,000 students graduate from high school every year; only one third of them are admitted to universities, the rest join the pool of unemployed.

An estimated 11 million Afghans are illiterate.

In 1385, education (primary & secondary) received 19% of the operating budget, 4.3% of the core core development budget and 7% of the total core and external, operating and development budget.