The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the caretaker government has recently launched the process of administering religious exams for teachers and staff of schools.
This ministry has instructed the Ministry of Education to test teachers and staff of the provincial education departments on the curriculum that has been taught.
According to the letter from the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice of the current government, the process of administering the exams began on September 9.
Several teachers from Herat province told Goharshad media that for the past week the provincial education department has been conducting religious exams for teachers and school employees.
They said that the Ministry of Education intends to use these exams to determine the religious proficiency of teachers and administrative staff of schools.
One teacher stated that the exam is being taken from books and booklets that had previously been distributed to teachers and administrative employees.
The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, in this letter, has ordered that religious exams be administered twice a year for employees of government offices.
The current government is also providing religious training to employees in the ministries.
The caretaker government has established “Departments of Invitation and Guidance” within ministries and independent directorates, and this structure has also been added to secondary-level offices.
The current government had previously conducted religious exams for ministry employees as well.
