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" Institutions of higher learning and secondary schools, partially destroyed in the first war and since repaired, have again been badly damaged. Before the beginning of the fighting in 1994, there were 450 general schools, 11 vocational secondary schools, and 3 institutions of higher education. Today, only the schools in the larger villages of the Chechen flatlands are in working order. In the smaller villages, schools have not been in operation since the first war due to lack of funds.
Practically all the schools in the mountains have been destroyed by bombing and shelling over the course of the two wars. No one is preparing to reestablish these schools: There is no money, no suitable buildings, and no teachers. In the mountain villages more than one generation of children has already come of age without an education of any kind, neither European nor traditional Chechen. Such people are easy victims for extremism and fill the ranks of military units preaching pseudo-religious slogans.
Under these adverse conditions we are seeing the return of the literacy problem, which was thought to have been resolved at the beginning of the 1970s. Additionally, many children in Chechnya have experienced a two or three-year interruption in their studies, resulting in students who should be in the 10th or 11th grade undertaking 6th and 7th grade coursework. "
Source : The Consequences of War for Education and Culture in Chechnya, Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe, 2000