On the other hand, some higher education institutions award bachelor's degrees after four years of studying.
[3] According to historical and archaeological research of the ancestors of the Tajik people (for details, see The history of Tajikistan), the first school (dabistany and dabiristany) were more than three thousand years ago.
[4] While the official literacy rate in Tajikistan is 98%, the poor quality of education since 1991 has reduced the skill level of younger people.
[5] Tajikistan's educational system suffers from a depleted infrastructure and an acute shortage of teachers at all levels, which will increase because of the relatively high birthrate.
The state-supported Soviet system remains in place, but the poor condition of the national economy and years of civil war sharply reduced funding in the early 2000s; government spending, however, began to increase in 2004.