Afghanistan's Ministry of Higher Education has established a new curriculum which it says it will roll out to universities across the country soon.
The old curriculum was always being criticised as not being up to date with today's methods and standards, but ministry officials said they hope this is addressed with the new outline.
"Through a lot of effort, we with some experts revised the curriculum and brought some innovations to all the universities that are able to remove the problems. Soon we will implement it in all higher education institutes," Higher Education Minister Obaidullah Obaid said Tuesday.
Meanwhile the Ministry said that 40 Turkish students including boys and girls have enrolled in the science, literature and Islamic faculties of Kabul University. It has been hailed as a sign of improving relations between Afghanistan and Turkey.
"This is an historical day. For the first time , a number of Turkish students are studying in Kabul University and the Afghan-Turkish schools will continue to help Afghan children in the education field," director of the Afghan Turkish Schools Numan Erdogan said.
Obaid said that the priorities for the Ministry this year are the creation of joint universities with foreign countries in order to improve the quality of teaching and increase capacity, the creation of an independent institute to solve the problems related to the university entrance exam Kankor, and the implementation of a credit system.