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...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Complaints about discrimination against Muslim children rose by 63 percent in 2022, according to a report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Speaking to Anadolu, head of Research and Advocacy at CAIR Corey Saylor said it is the first recorded decline in civil rights complaints by Muslim Americans since t...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): In a madrassa (religious school) in the Afghan capital, rows of teenage girls sit reciting verses of the Holy Quran under the watchful eye of a religious scholar. The number of Islamic schools has grown across Afghanistan since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, with teenage girls increasingly attending cla...
GENEVA (AA) – The denial of girls’ education in Afghanistan is “manifestly discriminatory,” said a UN rights official on Tuesday, urging the interim Taliban government to open schools to girls at all levels. “The denial of a secondary school education and of access to university is manifestly discriminatory, profo...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday said those behind the poisoning of schoolgirls in recent months should face “severe punishment”, according to his website. Several hundred cases of gas poisoning have been reported in more than 52 schools across Iran since the end of November, accordin...
Kabul, Afghanistan — AFP Male students trickled back to their classes Monday after Afghan universities reopened following a winter break, but women remain barred by Taliban authorities. The university ban is one of several restrictions imposed on women since the Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021, and has sparked global outrage...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iranian authorities arrested four people Thursday in connection with an assault on a woman outside a girls’ school targeted in a wave of poisoning attacks, a news agency said. Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported in the past three months among schoolgirls in what one government official said co...
