Tajikistan Education
Training Only 7% of children attend preschool (2007). The education system provides the opportunity for eleven years of schooling. Most of the students are taught in Tajik, but there are also classes where teaching is in the minority languages Kyrgyz, Russian, Turkmen and Uzbek. Russian-speaking children must also learn Tajik, official language since 1989, from the first year. Great emphasis is placed on Tajik culture and classical Persian literature. Teaching in Russian again became compulsory in 2003. In practice, the…