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

Insecurity behind nearly 50pc of schoolgirl dropouts

Ahmad Shah Erfanyar

24 Dec 2019 - 18:33

KABUL (Pajhwok): An investigative report shows 14 percent of girls are forced to . . .

Efforts on to reopen schools in Kandahar’s Maroof

Bashir Ahmad Naadem

23 Dec 2019 - 18:19

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Residents of Maroof district of southern Kandahar province say the education process in . . .

Seeking pay raise, Helmand teachers go on strike

Pajhwok Report

16 Dec 2019 - 19:54

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Schoolteachers in southern Helmand province went on strike on Monday against not increasing their salaries and not receiving land plots. Shah WaliZirmal, a

79 students graduated from legal clinic programme in Badakhshan

Nizamuddin Hameedi

16 Dec 2019 - 15:56

KABUL, have been graduated from a four-month legal clinic programme in north-eastern Badakhshan . . .

For first time, 26 Zadran students graduate from high school

Shakor Kamran

14 Dec 2019 - 19:47

GARDEZ (Pajhwok): For the first time, 26 students graduated from high school in the remote and mountainous district of Wuza Zadran in southeastern Paktia province.

Thousands of Kandahar children deprived of education

Ahmad Bashir Naadem

8 Dec 2019 - 18:17

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): As many as 100,000 children in southern Kandahar province have been deprived of

Taliban disallow schools’ construction in Ghazni

Saifullah Maftoon

5 Dec 2019 - 16:44

GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): The Education are not allowing construction of school buildings in the province.

Father who takes daughters daily on bike to school

Pajhwok

4 Dec 2019 - 19:59

SHARANA (Pajhwok): Mia Khan, a resident of southeastern Paktika province, daily takes his three daughters on motorbike to school which is 12 kilometers away .

Parwan University students scared after stone-hurling

Farid Tanha

30 Nov 2019 - 17:34

KABUL (Pajhwok): Officials and girl students of the university in central Parwan province have demanded more security measures to protect students and the university, especially

Kandahar seriously needs 5,000 more teachers

Bashir Ahmad Naadem

27 Nov 2019 - 18:19

KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): The education director for southern Kandahar says he has taken many steps to . . .

Ghani says not satisfied with current curriculum

Pajhwok Report

24 Nov 2019 - 18:33

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday expressed his dissatisfaction with the educational curriculum and . . .

Police beat education officials in Paktika’s Sra Rawza district

Pajhwok Report

21 Nov 2019 - 19:17

SHARAN (Pajhwok): Police in the Sra Rawza district of southeastern Paktika province have beaten officials of the

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