As far as I know, and since as long ago as I can remember about the education system in Afghanistan, especially higher education, it has always been that routine-old-traditional same way of graduating from school and preparing for the tough entrance exam to college or that terrifying word “Koncor” which includes 260 less or more tough and confusing questions from all what students have learned throughout their school time. I had always thought that it must be the system the world countries follow, not until I came out of Afghanistan and found out that other countries have different system of educating the young generation. In simpler words if we compare the education system of Afghanistan with other countries, in Afghanistan is more like building a huge wall against the interest and want of students by giving them the tough college entrance exam but in other countries it is in fact respecting what students want by enrolling them to their favorite faculties which itself is an encouragement and a motivator for students.
There is no terrifying word of Koncor “Tough Entrance Exam, which seems impossible for 50% of school graduates to succeed and go to their long-admired majors” in other countries. Students in other countries don’t need to spend most of their time preparing only to answer around 260 perplexing questions, which might not even be that useful in their future education. They would rather get focused on their main knowledge. School students in most countries, while they are still in middle, choose which field to study in the future according to their interests and skills and surely get there. But, in the old education system of Afghanistan, only those who are super genius might be able to go to their favorite faculties. And the rest would be either enrolled to any faculty that their scores gotten in Koncor exam would match, or they would have no result at all, and need to spend more years to prepare them to fight in this same result-less battle. I myself am one the victims of this old traditional higher education system of Afghanistan. I wanted to become an engineer, but after I took the entrance exam, I was automatically enrolled to faculty of Natural Science which I’m never interested in. Ant that is I believe the main and major reason for most young people who totally leave their education after they don’t get the result they want. They get psychological problems, they lose interest in social lives and most awfully, to avoid their inside anger and sorrow of being in nowhere after all their efforts for going to college, some of these failures-to-colleges, tend to get into drug-user groups and gangsters which has become one the most serious problems for the government and a heavy burden to the society. And those who would have nothing to do after they fail the entrance exam, surely think they would’ve very much loved to start working to be an illiterate carpenter, tailor or bus driver or etc while they were still kids if they had know they’d eventually fail to go the colleges they have admired whole their school time.
It is the responsibility of the government to devise out a plan to save the future of those many young people who are left nothing to do with their lives after they fail the college entrance exam.
If I were to suggest the ministry of higher education or those authorities who are responsible for this terrible but still ignored risk, I would say, they should either change the system of entering to college for students so that they could go and start their career in a field where their skills and interests match and fit. Or, the government should devise out a plan to provide jobs for those many young men and women who fail to succeed in going to college. So that the countless lives would be secure from risk of being jobless and so that those many women who can’t reach to colleges due to security problems and other barriers could work and get along with their lives with no serious worries and finally, so that so many similar education system-related issues would no longer be a burden for the government itself and for those many people who survive to live would no longer have difficulties with their lives.
One of the easier way the government can do is to go easier with students taking the college entrance exam, in other words, let them just choose to go their favorite colleges and witness what would come out after they graduate from their wanted-colleges. But, if the government is to keep that old system of higher education, and provide jobs for the failures, then that would be still better than nothing, but it costs the government to spend some more money on launching construction, mining, farming, raising and other possible work companies for people which surely would give satisfying results after a short time.
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