Residents of northern Sar-i-Pul province have donated 275 acres of land, costing 35 million afghanis, to 115 schools, an official said on Saturday. Education Director Abdul Ghafoor said the people donated 550,000 square metres of land in the…
Government high schools in southeastern Paktia province still lack computers and students are yet to practically learn their use. High school students say computer skills and English language are major demand of today’s markets and the ministry concerned…
Residents of Chaparhar district of eastern Nangarhar province say all schools in the district have been closed since a month due to security threats. On the other hand, local officials say they have discussed the issue with local…
Residents of remote areas of northern Baghlan province say Afghan security forces are using schools as bases, depriving thousands of students of education. Syed Kama Wardak, a resident of the Kohna Qala area of Baghlan-I-Markazi district, told Pajhwok…
Education officials in southern Helmand province on Thursday said about 120 schools which are closed due to insecurity would be reopened during the new academic year. Daud Safari, provincial education director, made these remarks during a ceremony marking…
Thousands of schoolchildren attend their classes under the open skies in southeastern Paktika province where 147 out of the total 395 schools are without proper buildings. A teacher at the Jankhel school of Ziruk district, who wished to…
Five out of 18 schools are open and the rest shut due to insecurity in the Kajaki district of southern Helmand province, official says. Of every 18 schools, only one has its own building. Only the district center’s…
Almost all schools in central Logar province have been closed due to rising insecurity, keeping students from appearing in mid-term exams. Education recently warned teachers, students and other officers against attending schools. He said the Taliban had closed…
Efforts have been underway to reopen 123 schools closed due to insecurity and other reasons in southern Helmand province, where some 600,000 children are out of school, an official said Wednesday. Helmand education director Dawod Sha Safari told…
Taliban, an official said on Thursday. Takhar education director Abdul Sami Abdyar told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban had closed 15 schools in Darqad, four in Khawja Bahauddin and three in Bangi Qala districts and one in Khawja…
Tribal elders have decided to fine the families barring daughters from going to school in the Musakhel district of southeastern Khost province, an official said on Sunday. Haji Mandayar Mangal, an influential resident of the district, told…
Fifty-seven percent of school buildings which have newly been constructed need rehabilitation and 70 percent schools in some provinces lack adequate books, a survey released on Wednesday said. The study conducted by the Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA) said…
A number of schools have been closed after being threatened by Taliban militants in this capital city and Matakhan district of southeastern Paktika province, an official said Tuesday. Matakhan district chief Gul Agha told Pajhwok Afghan News all…
At least 268 schools in northeastern Badakhshan province have no buildings, with students taught under tents. Some of the schools built recently have been destroyed. Roohullah Mohaqiq, the education director, told Pajhwok Afghan News most of schools, set…
There is no evidence of anti-Pakistan syllabus being taught at schools for Afghan refugees, lawmakers were informed on Tuesday. Naeema Kishwer Khan, a member of the National Assembly, had claimed on January 25 the syllabus projected India as…
More than 400 schools which the Taliban closed about a month back have been reopened in northern Kunduz province, an official said Monday. The Taliban ordered hundreds of schools shut downed in many parts of the province…
Thirty schools including those of girls have been reopened in central Logar province after remaining closed for eleven days, an official said Wednesday. Logar education director Abdul Wakil Kaliwal told Pajhwok Afghan News that the schools were reopened…
Local officials on Sunday said the Taliban had closed all schools in Charkh district of central Logar province. Charkh district chief Mohammad Hanif Hanifi told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Taliban closed the schools in reaction to an…
Talks have been underway with Taliban militants through tribal elders and religious scholars on reopening more than a dozen schools the rebels have closed in Warduj district of northeastern Badakhshan province, officials said Monday. The schools have been…
GARDEZ (Pajhwok) Seventy-five percent of schools in southeastern Paktia province lack of their own buildings , local officials and residents say. There are total of 396 schools in the province, but 250 of them are without buildings, according to the provincial…
More than a dozen schools for girls closed by Taliban, officials said on Saturday. The schools had been closed for the past four years but government officials say efforts are being made to reopen the schools. Provincial authorities…
Security forces have occupied 20 school buildings and are using them as security posts in different areas of southern Helmand province, the education director has said. Talking to Pajhwok on Sunday (March 18), Helmand education director Daud Shah…
More than half of schools in southern Zabul province, where four districts have no schools at all, are closed due to insecurity, an official said on Tuesday. Atta Jan, the provincial council chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News around…
Around 50 percent of schools in central Logar province are without buildings and lack textbooks, education officials say. Provincial education director Mohammad Akbar Stanikzai told Pajhwok Afghan News that a total of 305 schools and seminaries were active…
