Teaching in Freedom, Empowering Teachers
School directors, teachers and trainers are our most valuable human resource. Empowering them through continuing skills development is an important part of the ETF’s work with partner countries bordering Europe.
The theme of the 2017 World Teachers' Day - the UNESCO initiative to appreciate, assess, and improve the educators of the world - is ‘Teaching in Freedom, Empowering Teachers’. To mark the occasion, the ETF invites you to meet some empowered vocational teachers and trainers in Tajikistan.
Powering ahead through partnerships
The Vocational Lyceum for Agriculture, Dahana village Kulob District, Tajikistan, was set up in the Soviet era to train agricultural workers. Facilities, resources, infrastructure, and curricula are outdated, and have been barriers to quality vocational education.
School Director Amirkhon Nazriev, and Deputy Director Rakhmon Karimov, have been collaborating with the rural town’s electricity grid company to improve the situation.
The local electricity company is helping to train the school’s teachers and students - the next generation of electricians. Kulob District Energy company owner Safarov Nuralmad, says all have been eager learners.
‘Our common goal is to prepare better qualified students for the electrical power system of the region,’ says Mr Nuralma, who is part of a taskforce developing qualification standards and new syllabi with the school.This country needs qualified specialists; it would be good for all schools to collaborate with local companies.’
Deputy Director Rakhmon Karimov says the school has also revamped its laboratory and installed relevant electrical network control panels. ‘Our vocational students along with school foremen and staff from the electricity company now participate in emergency operations in our village. 'We have put to into practice the knowledge and skills acquired during the training courses and achieved concrete results.’
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