Ten students were killed and eight others wounded on Thursday when a bomb ripped through a religious school in northern Takhar province. The injured students of the seminary, located in Ishkamish district, were evacuated to hospital, said a…
KABUL’s ambassador to China says he has been in contact with Afghan students in Wuhan state of the neighboring county to assist them in avoiding the risk of coronavirus. Health authorities around the world are taking action to prevent a…
The governor of central Logar province on Monday denied schools’ boys faced sexual harassment in the province. A week back Guardian newspaper published an investigative report about sexual misuse of male school students in Logar. The Guardian report…
KABUL (MoE) said on Thursday around 800,000 new students had been enrolled in schools in 27 provinces this year. A statement from MoE said fresh students, 43 percent of them girls, had been enrolled in primary schools this year.…
KABUL (MoE) on Sunday announced banning students from taking part in welcoming parties for foreign and local guests and their presence in election campaigns, warning violators of legal action. A statement from the MoE received by Pajhwok Afghan News said…
More than half of lecturers of the university in southeastern Paktika province are busy pursuing their master’s degree education inside and outside the country, leaving students struggling with their studies. Kala Khan, an agriculture faculty student in the…
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,…
Hundreds of students could not sit the university entrance test from Charkh district of central Logar province due to an ongoing operation against the Taliban in the district, residents and local officials claim. The entry test in Logar…
At least 30 percent of students have dropped out of school as a result of multiple problems, the education director said on Thursday. Mohammad Ayub Awrin told Pajhwok Afghan News the lack of financial resources, teachers, textbooks…
KABUL to the progress and prosperity of the entire region, a media report said on Tuesday. Hussain expressed the view while addressing the launching ceremony of a documentary on Afghan students studying in Pakistan in Islamabad on Tuesday. He said…
KABUL Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) In line with a scholarship scheme of the Pakistan government, doctors and medical students from the neighbouring country were admitted to Baqai Medical University in the port city of Karachi. However, the PM&DC is…
Schoolchildren are exploited for glorifying politicians and colorizing political and apolitical gatherings in northern Balkh province. Hundreds of people attended a gathering for peace at the Hazrat Ali Shrine or Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital, on…
KABUL (MoE) on Sunday said 50 school students were poisoned in the third education district of the capital Kabul. The students were poisoned during a program titled Supporting Education in Kabul city this morning around 9:30am, the MoE spokesman, Mohammad…
The Taliban have warned school students of fining them up to 500,000 Pakistani rupees for shaving beard, wearing tie or establishing contact with government officials, residents of Gayan district of southeastern Paktika province claimed on Monday. One of…
Some students of private universities in Kabul on Saturday demanded the government increase security for educational institutes and also asked militants not to target such facilities. The demand from privately-run higher education in Darul Aman area of Kabul.…
KABUL rested with the president. The Kabul University students on Wednesday took to the streets in jurisdiction of 3rd municipality district and reached the Higher Education Ministry building in Kart-e-Sey area. The students chanted slogans like “We don’t want beans…
At least 31 Nangarhar University students accused of insulting the national flag have been awarded jail terms, an official said on Sunday. Some months back, hundreds of Nangarhar University students staged a protest in support of militants and…
University students in central Bamyan province complain the lack of hostels and high rents of private rooms in the provincial capital has left them with no option but to abandon their education. The students said hundreds of…
More than 100 students have graduated for the first time from the literature and agriculture faculties of the university in eastern Laghman province. Speaking at the graduation ceremony for the 113 students, Laghman university chancellor Abdul Saboor Ghaforzai…
Nearly 50 percent of schools in northern Baghlan province lack buildings and students have to study in old structures, under tents and in rented houses. The problems are more acute in remote districts, forcing the provincial education department…
Three students have been killed in separate security incidents in central Logar province, officials said on Thursday. Shahpoor Arab, director education, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incidents took place in Pul-i-Alam, the provincial capital, and Baraki Barak district…
