Education

New academic year begins across Afghanistan today

KABUL (Pajhwok): The new academic year 1405 (solar year) was officially launched across Afghanistan on Thursday in a ceremony attended by the leadership of the

Ghor man provides free education to out-of-school children after Pajhwok report

Public school teachers in Kabul demand pay rise

Poverty drives Ghor’s children from school into hard labour

400 more schoolgirls poisoned in Herat’s Injil district

Pajhwok reporter

7 Sep 2015 - 10:37

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Nearly 400 schoolgirls and teachers had to be hospitalised after being poisoned in western Herat province, an official said on Monday .

Work on new building for Farah University launched

Mohammad Humayon Zahin

6 Sep 2015 - 16:17

FARAH CITY (Pajhwok): The foundation stone of a new building for the Farah University was laid on Sunday, an official said. The . . .

75pc of Wardak schools lack textbooks

Pajhwok

5 Sep 2015 - 19:30

MAIDAN SHAHR (Pajhwok): Six months of the current nine-month academic year have passed, but still . . .

Woman, 3 children among 19 killed in Kunar clash

Pajhwok reporter

5 Sep 2015 - 16:03

ASADABAD (Pajhwok): A woman and her three children were killed in a rocket strike during a clash between

Dozens of school girls poisoned in Herat, Kabul

Pajhwok reporter

2 Sep 2015 - 17:10

KABUL/HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Some school girls in the Injil district of western . . .

New library with 5,000 books opens in Kunduz

Saifullah Maftoon

1 Sep 2015 - 15:56

KUNDUZ (Pajhwok): A new library stocking 5,000 books on a wide range of subjects has been opened in the Khanabad district of northern . .

Thousands of students out of school due to fighting

Habib Rahman Sherzai

31 Aug 2015 - 16:53

PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): Thousands of students have been left out of school and hundreds of families displaced in the Dand-i-Ghori locality . . .

More than 100 schoolgirls, teachers poisoned in Herat

Pajhwok reporter

31 Aug 2015 - 11:52

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): At least 116 school students and teachers were poisoned in the Injil district of western Herat province on Monday morning, an .

Higher education standards being improved, says Momand

Javed Hamim Kakar

29 Aug 2015 - 12:54

KABUL (Pajhwok): Concerted efforts are being made to improve the quality of higher education in public and private-sector universities, the minister concerned says. Higher Education

130 schools in Laghman without buildings

Zeerak Fahim

26 Aug 2015 - 22:27

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): As many as 130 schools in eastern Laghman province are without proper buildings, but boundary walls for 28 of them will be .

31 schoolgirls poisoned in Maidan Wardak

Edrees Noori

26 Aug 2015 - 12:19

MAIDAN SHAHR (Pajhwok): At least 31 schoolgirls were poisoned in Marakazi Behsud district of central Maidan Wardak province but they were stated to be .

60pc of schools without buildings in Kandahar

Bashir Ahmad Naadim

25 Aug 2015 - 17:57

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Education officials said on Tuesday lack of school buildings, less number of teachers . . .

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