Residents of central Bamyan province have welcomed the reopening of high and secondary schools for girls in the province and called on education officials to reopen these schools in other provinces as well. Last week, officials in Bamyan…
A number of school and university students expressed concern over the closure of educational institutes while the officials of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan say that the educational centers would reopen in the near future. A day earlier, Education…
Education officials in northern Balkh province say that all schools in Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital, and districts are open. AliullahAmiri, director of Balkh education department, told Pajhwok Afghan News that all schools in the province were open and…
Taliban militants have given school students mid-term exams in several districts of southern Ghazni province in violation of the government’s decision on shutting schools in cold areas until December 5. Schools, like other government entities, had been…
A newly-constructed building for a high school has been put into service in central Parwan province while reconstruction work on another high school building has been launched in eastern Nangarhar province. In Nangarhar, the reconstruction work on Shaheed…
KABUL plan for reopening schools, President Ashraf Ghani’s office said on Tuesday. Attendance of grade 11 and 12 students of public schools, 7th to 12th pupils of night-shift schools and grade 1 to 12 students of private schools will begin…
The Cabinet has decided to conditionally reopen schools and universities on August 6. President Ashraf Ghani chaired the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday evening and decided to conditionally reopen schools and universities next month depending on the prevalence of…
While inaugurating a new building for the Education Department of southwestern Nimroz province here, local officials on Wednesday said 38 new schools would be built in the province next academic year. Massoud Noori, head of Nimroz Education Department,…
Newly-constructed three school buildings were inaugurated in the provincial capital and Alishang district of eastern Laghman province on Friday. Urban development and land director Rafiullah Ishaqzoy said the buildings cost nearly 62 million afghanis, adding the structures which…
The education director for southern Kandahar says he has taken many steps to improve education process in the province, but still some challenges remain. Prof. Mohib Ahmad Roshan, who took charge as Kandahar education director three months…
KABUL (MoE) has appointed a team to investigate allegations of sodomy in boys schools in central Logar province. The ministry appointed the delegation after Guardian newspaper published an investigative report about sexual misuse of male school students in Logar province.…
Taliban militants on Saturday closed all schools in the Mohammad Agha district of central Logar province, threatening teachers and students with death, an official said Saturday. Provincial Education Department spokesman Shahpur Arab told Pajhwok Afghan News that the…
Local officials say 60,000 children would be enrolled in schools in southern Kandahar province at the start of new academic year which begins on September 6 in warm provinces. Nazar Mohammad Samimi, Kandahar education department spokesman, told…
Construction work on two school buildings has been launched in southern Ghazni province, an official said on Sunday. Mohammad Arif Noori, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News one of the buildings in Khalid pass area of…
More than 870 female students graduated from high schools in southern Helmand province this year, an official said on Monday, rejecting some reports in this regard. Helmand education department officials said there were some reports that not a…
Hundreds of tribal elders, religious scholars, civil society agree to ceasefire. The gathering in Lashkargah, the provincial capital, late on Saturday was addressed by PPM leader Iqbal Khyber, who said the ongoing war had no purpose except killing…
KABUL, says a new UN report. UN children’s agency, UNICEF, said in a report on Tuesday attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled between 2017 and 2018 -- up from 68 to 192. One factor in the sharp spike appears to…
Twenty-three schools and seminaries have been closed in southern Ghazni province as a result of social issues, insecurity and students’ unwillingness to attend classes. Ghazni is one of the insecure provinces of Afghanistan and other spheres of…
A number of school students in southern Helmand province complain their annual exams are about to begin but they still lack text books. Farid Ahmad, a student at Abdul Samad Rouhani High School in Lashkargah, the provincial capital,…
Local education to resolve problems of students studying in the open. Logar education department spokesman, Shapor Arab, told Pajhwok Afghan News that last year they shared their problems regarding shortages of professional teachers, school buildings and text books…
President Ashraf Ghani on Monday said 1,200 school buildings were being constructed out of proposed 6,000 schools while funds for another 2,700 school buildings have been arranged. The president, who rang a school bell to mark the launch…
American marine forces on Thursday provided different materials worth more than 200,000 USD in aid to a number of schools in southern Helmand province, officials said Thursday. Helmand education director Daud Shah Safari, talking to a ceremony on…
Contracting companies have disappeared into thin air, leaving incomplete construction work on more than a dozen schools in eastern Kunar province, Pajhwok Afghan News has reliably learnt. Contracts for the construction of 14 schools were awarded between 2007…
KABUL. Balkhi expressed these views after signing a contract on printing 1.9 million seminary books with Sarwar Saadat, owner of Saadat Printing Company, today. The minister said the books in Dari, Pashtu and Arabic included 107 different subjects for religious…
