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Tajikistan
Vocational Education
In the late Soviet era, the quality of technical training available
in Tajikistan fell far below the standard for the Soviet Union
as a whole. Graduates often were far less prepared for technical
jobs than their counterparts elsewhere in the union. Many vocational
schools were poorly equipped and lacked basic supplies. The general
shortage of textbooks in Tajik also affected vocational courses.
Although instruction was available in about 150 trades in 1990,
that range fell far short of supplying the various types of expertise
needed by the republic's economy. A large proportion of students
in vocational secondary schools had poor skills in basic arithmetic
and Russian. Although Tajikistan's population was nearly two-thirds
rural, in 1990 only thirty-eight of eighty-five technical schools
were located in the countryside, and fifteen of those were in
serious disrepair. Many factories failed to provide students vocational
training despite agreements to do so.
Data as of March 1996
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