{"book":"adl0980","page":15,"text":"A group of students expressing their appreciation during the Teachers' Day celebrations.\n\nexperienced science teachers to spend their vacations at schools located in different provinces where the students have their vacations in a different time due to the difference in climate.\nDuring the fourth year of the Plan thirty-four per cent. more boys and twenty-seven per cent. more girls graduated from high schools throughout the country than the previous year. Of these a considerable number was selected for training in the teaching profession.\nThe Department of Secondary Education also tackles the problem of Afghan students studying abroad by providing a special rate of exchange for their parents and going through their progress reports, which are sent to the Ministry regularly by their particular universities abroad.\nIn order to encourage students in various arts and crafts, the Ministry holds an annual exhibition during the Independence Celebrations and a Fine Arts Display each Autumn. The exhibition arranged last year was one of the biggest in the whole country with 38 different educational institutions taking part. The Fine Arts Display consisted of 2,000 works of various students from boys and girls elementary, secondary and high schools\n\nout of which 72 students were awarded prizes in the nation-wide competition.\n\nVOCATIONAL EDUCATION\nChanges in Teaching Programmes:\nA number of important changes have been made in the teaching material for religious schools, Kabul Teachers' College, and the schools for Agriculture and Commerce with a view to up-dating the method used so far. For instance, students of the religious schools were given instructions on science alongside with the usual subjects, and in the Kabul Teachers' College subjects such as fundamentals of education and educational sociology were introduced. The School of Agriculture was equipped with a modern laboratory and students were given more opportunity for experimental farming and physical exercise.\nFurther, the School of Physical Education was raised to the level of a high school with more foreign instructors. And in the experimental schools much attention was paid to establishing close contacts with parents of the students in matters related to schooling.\n\nNew Developments:\nDuring the fourth year of the Plan Art\n\n12","chars":2318,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0980/00015.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":93,"title":"Afghan progress in the fourth year plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0980/15","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0980/canvas/15","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0980/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0980_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}