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Tajikistan
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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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