She will participate in the Second Russian Congress of UNESCO Chairs at the Russian Academy of Civil Service, where she will sign the creation of a UNESCO Chair in Modern Innovation and Information Technologies in Higher Professional Education, with the rector of the State Tax Academy of the Ministry of Finance.

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In the past decade, Afghanistan has seen the development of a younger professional class, much thanks to the opportunities of higher education offered by newly opened affordable private universities.

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Making college a prerequisite for professional school was possibly the most important reform ever made in American higher education.

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This tremendous jump in professional productivity is the most significant advance in the pedagogic part of higher education in a millennium.

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Yet working conditions in services are often pleasanter and safer than on an assembly line, and average wages in the fastest-growing sectors, such as finance, professional and business services, education and health, are higher than in manufacturing.

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