Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Students of the minority Hazara community remain unfazed by the obstacles to education in Afghanistan and have pledged that they will return to class. “Education is our weapon and they want to take this weapon away from us,” said 19-year-old Wajiha, a day after escaping the assault that killed 35. “I...
Tadif, Syria (AFP): In a frontline town divided by regime and rebel forces in northwest Syria, students have returned to classrooms in a bombed-out building with no glass in the windows, no doors, desks, chairs or electricity. Girls carrying pink backpacks play alongside boys with blue ones in the courtyard of their school in Tadif, […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinian schools in occupied East Jerusalem went on strike on Monday to protest Israeli attempts to impose textbooks that attempt to wipe out Palestinian national identity. The one-day strike was staged in response to a call by a coalition of national and Islamic factions in the city. “We reject Israel’s attempt...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A new report from Bangladesh’s Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) indicates that 481,000 students dropped out of school due to rising poverty and income disparity in the country. The report said that of the total, at least 10% were female victims of child marriage, while 16% male children ...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerians on Wednesday lamented the declaration earlier this week of an indefinite total strike by university lecturers in the country. Taiwo Amodu, a public servant and parent based in the capital Abuja, told Anadolu Agency that the announcement of a total strike will further exacerbate tensions among parents and u...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Afghan university students will have to attend more compulsory Islamic studies classes, education officials said Tuesday while giving little sign that secondary schools for girls would reopen. “We are adding five more religious subjects to the existing eight,” said Abdul Baqi Haqqani, minister for higher e...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Depriving girls of secondary education caused a loss of at least $500 million to the Afghan economy in the last 12 months, according to an analysis by the UN’s children fund. UNICEF said keeping girls out of secondary school costs Afghanistan 2.5% of its annual GDP. “If the current cohort of three […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A recent decision by Israeli authorities to demolish a school in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah amounts to “war on Palestinian identity,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Thursday. “We reject the (Israeli) occupation’s decision to demolish the Ein Samia schoo...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Since the Taliban swept back to power in August last year, hundreds of fighters have returned to school — either on their own or pushed by their commanders. The word “Taliban” actually means “students” in Arabic, and the hardline Islamist movement’s name stems from the religious sch...
MARDIN, Turkiye (AA) – The EU will send an additional €530 million ($567 million) as educational assistance for Syrian children in Turkey, the bloc’s top diplomat said on Thursday. The bloc’s cooperation in the education of Syrian children in the Turkish Education System (PIKTES) will last until summer 2025, Nikolaus Meyer-La...
