Lutfullah Khairkhwa, the deputy minister of Higher Education, said during the annual reporting of the ministry that the finalization time for the plan is not clear.
The Ministry of Higher Education in the past year has started 3 Ph.D. programs and 15 master’s programs, and now there are 9 Ph.D. programs and 40 master’s programs in Afghanistan, he said.
Khairkhwa gave statistics that 118,000 new students were recruited to universities in the last year and more than 400,000 students are studying in the country’s universities.
The deputy minister of Higher Education said that about 200 to 250 professors from various universities have left the country.
