KANDAHAR CITY: The Afghan Education Foundation (AEF) has trained 800 teachers including 295 female on modern teaching methods and techniques in the southern Kandahar province.
The step was taken with the aim to raise the level of education of teachers and improve their teaching techniques.
Haji Nasir Ahmad, chief of the AEF, said the programme comprised two hours training daily for two months. He said the teachers had been trained in mathematics and other science subjects.
He said the foundation had hired the services of 34 trainers to successfully complete the training programme. He said the two-month training programme cost 3.5 million Afghani which was provided by AEF and Faiz-i-Aam Welfare Foundation.
Head of the education department of Kandahar Hayatullah Rafiqi described the training programme as useful for the teachers saying it would help improve their professional skills.
It merits a mention here that this was the first programme of its type successfully conducted and completed in Kandahar. | 
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