KABUL (Pajhwok): The World Bank on Thursday approved the allocation of an additional $25 million in financing from the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) to

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday promised to establish 1,800 new schools, increase salaries of teachers and hire 11,000 more teachers in . .

TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): The new education year kicked off in southern Uruzgan province at a time when 51 schools are closed, depriving thousands of students of

MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): The Taliban have been monitoring schools in majority of insecure districts of northern Balkh province, an official said on Tuesday. Encouraging . .

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Education (MoE) has taken a U-turn on the ban it imposed last week on public singing by schoolgirls above 12

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Thursday slammed as illegal a Ministry of Education ban on schoolgirls singing and performing in

SHARAN (Pajhwok): Teachers in three districts of southeastern Paktika province claim to have not received their last 15 months’ salaries and threaten to quit. Noorullah

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): Hundreds of teachers in western Herat province staged a protest in front of the governor’s office chanting “We want justice, not .

KABUL (Pajhwok): The acting education minister on Tuesday said 3.7 million eligible students dropped out of school last year across the country due to .

KABUL (Pajhwok): Health professionals say they are concerned about children and teenagers being infected with a new type of Covid-19 and ask the government to