Tajik Schoolchildren to Be Taught English From Third Grade

@Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Tajikistan

Children in Tajikistan will now start to learn English from the third grade. Local media is reporting that teachers in the country will be given extra training ahead of this change.

On 20 May a delegation from Tajikistan took part in the Education World Forum in London. In September the British Council’s regional director Adrian Chadwick will visit Dushanbe to discuss potential new projects in Tajikistan.

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Askar Alimzhanov graduated from the journalism department of the Kazakh State University named after S. Kirov, then worked as a correspondent for the daily republican newspaper Leninskaya Smen. He then moved to the United States to be a reporter for the daily newspaper "Cape Cod Times" in Hayanis, Massachusetts, (USA) under the journalist exchange program between the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the New England Society of News Editors. Since then, he has helped build transparency and understanding of Central Asia region in various executive level positions at esteemed media organizations including "Akbar"(Alma-Ata) international center for journalism, the Khabar News agency, the Television and Radio Corporation "Kazakhstan" JSC, and MIR- Kazakhstan.

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