NEW DELHI (AA): A school in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh faced administrative action and was de-recognized for allegedly forcing non-Muslim girls to wear hijabs or headscarves. State Home Minister Narottam Mishra, while talking to journalists in the capital Bhopal on Wednesday, warned that action will continue against the school ...
COLOGNE, Germany (AA): A Muslim student was insulted by a university professor in Germany because she was wearing a headscarf, her lawyer said on Monday. The incident occurred during an economics class at the campus of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg university in northwestern Germany. The professor used slurs and even compared the Muslim woman’s headscar...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA): Vital archives containing thousands of students and staff documents were destroyed in a fire set by protesters last week at Senegal’s Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) of Dakar, an academic official said Saturday. Violent protests erupted in Dakar and other towns after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was sentenced to two ...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Two Afghan girls educate the children of poor families living in caves in a classroom in Bamyan — one of Afghanistan’s poorest provinces. Ruya Serferaz (18) and her English class friend Besbegum Havari (19) set off every day regardless of adverse weather conditions, and teach Persian, English, mathematics, ...
Jindayris, Syria (AFP): In a dusty Syrian camp for earthquake survivors, school pupils line up and wait for a colourful bus to pull up. Since the disaster hit, they go to a classroom on wheels. School bags on their backs and notebooks in hand, the children took off their shoes before entering the bus, then […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the Muslim world to invest more in science and technology for Muslim children to bring back the lost glorious heritage of the Muslim community (ummah). “Muslims once showed their leadership in science, technology, literature and culture. But why do the Muslims today...
ISTANBUL (AA): Nearly half of Malaysian high-school graduates chose not to move on to university in 2021, the country’s education minister said on Wednesday. Over 180,000 graduates who took the country’s national university entry exam decided not to continue their education, making up nearly 48.74%, Fadhlina Sidek told lawmakers at the country...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The EU has deplored the demolition of a Palestinian school by Israeli authorities that “directly affects 81 children and their education” in the West Bank. “The European Union condemns the demolition of the EU-funded school in Jubbet Adh Dhib,” Peter Stano, the European Commission’s lead spokesperson on foreign affairs, said in...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least seven teachers were killed on Thursday when gunmen opened fire in a school in northwestern Pakistan, police said. The shooting occurred at a high school in the remote town of Parachinar, nestled on the border with Afghanistan. Students at the school were taking annual exams when the shooting took [&helli...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Palestinians embraced at the Egyptian border with the blockaded Gaza Strip on Friday as students returned home after fleeing the violence in Sudan. Gaza’s Crossing and Border Authority said “172 students arrived in the homeland through the Rafah border crossing, as the first batch of students c...
