Education

The new academic year has started across the country, with school doors staying closed for girls above the sixth grade.

The Embassy of China has awarded scholarships to a total of 60 students from Kabul University.

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Nearly 120 school buildings were repaired this year in 19 districts of southern Helmand province, an official said on Saturday. Maulvi Mohammad Ismail

On the eve of the new education year, a group of youths in southeastern Khost province has started mobilising families to send their children to schools.

Education Department officials in northern Baghlan province say more than 200 out of 570 schools in the province have no buildings and their students face serious problems.

MEHTHARLAM (Pajhwok): About 50 school buildings have been reconstructed and one new building constructed in eastern Laghman province during the past one year, an official

Nearly half of the state-run schools in northern Badakhshan and central Daikundi provinces are without buildings and the students of these schools study in the open air, according to local officials on Sunday.

On the eve of the new educational year, some girls have asked the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) government to allow them go to their schools and universities in compliance with the Islamic Hijab.

About 68 projects concerning education have been completed at a cost of 41 million afghanis and put into service in central Logar province.

Thirty six thousand students graduated from the Technical Vocational Training and Education Institute (TVTEI) this year out of which 1,000 would be recruited as teachers, an official said on Wednesday.

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): The Education Department of central Logar province says thirteen new schools have been approved and would be opened in the new . .

The Education Department in northern Baghlan province says 271 seminaries have been established this year and more than 10,000 students, including girls, are enrolled there.