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February 22, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Soala gazes at her prized high school diploma with tears in her eyes. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Zarghuna Ana high school in Kandahar province, she had dreamed of going on to study medicine. But her hopes were dashed when her father and older brother said that they would not allow her to carry on her education. Full news...
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January 20, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Six million Afghanis have gone missing from the Education Directorate of central Daikundi province. Clerk of the Education Directorate had reportedly withdrawn six million Afghanis from the bank a few days before who has been missing since then. Sayed Mustafa Musawi, Finance Manager at the Education Directorate says that the clerk’s cell phone is also not working. Full news...
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January 12, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
New Afghan Press: Forty percent of children in Afghanistan, battered by four decades of conflict, are out of school, UNICEF said on Monday. An estimated 24 million children of school age are not in school in 22 countries affected by conflict, the agency found. South Sudan has the largest proportion of children out of school, 51 percent, followed by 47 percent in Niger, 41 percent in Sudan, and 40 percent in Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 9, 2016 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Going to school is fraught with danger in provinces like Takhar, Sar-e Pol, Baghlan, Parwan, Nangarhar, Kunduz, Helmand and Badakhshan. Schools have been targeted and buildings blown up by Taleban and other armed anti-government fighters. Nearly 10 million students – a little less than half girls – are affected. Full news...
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September 4, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IBTimes: At least 300 girls have been admitted to hospitals after facing suspected gas attacks in their schools. Authorities believe the mysterious gas poisoning was carried out by those with suspected links to Taliban extremists. The girls’ age ranges from nine to 18. Three separate gas attacks were reported from Herat province. Full news...
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August 31, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NBC News: Nearly 100 Afghan schoolgirls fell sick on Monday, prompting officials in the western city of Herat to investigate whether they were poisoned by Taliban militants. “Our initial finding shows some kind of spray was used by some of the students to freshen up the classrooms,” provincial police spokesman Col. Abdul Rauf Ahmadi told NBC News. “Our investigation is ongoing to determine if it was an act of sabotage or poor quality spray.” Full news...
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August 23, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
1TV: More than half of teachers in Afghanistan are incompetent to carry out the task, an independent anti-corruption body warned Saturday. The finding by the Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee alleged favoritism and patronage widely prevail over merit and ability in appointment of teachers. Full news...
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July 10, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A new report by the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) reports that armed opposition groups and political parties are seeking to embed themselves high schools around the country in order to extend their influence and recruit among Afghan youths. Research indicates that militant groups such as the Taliban, Jundallah, Hizb-e-Islami and Hizb ut-Tahrir are all already active in recruiting students from Afghan schools to join their ranks. Full news...
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July 4, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Attackers on a motorbike threw acid in the faces of three teenage girls on their way to school in Afghanistan’s western Herat province on Saturday, an official told CNN. The girls, age 16 to 18, are students at one of the biggest girls’ schools in Herat city, the provincial capital, said Aziz-ul-Rahman Sarwary, head of the education department for the province. Full news...
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June 18, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Though stories of the United States wasting taxpayer dollars to rebuild Afghanistan are common, the federal government always proudly pointed to its successes investing in education there. But now, it seems, those achievements were likely inflated. Full news...
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June 13, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than 40 female students and a number of teachers have been fell unconscious in Shaki district of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said Saturday. The incident took place in Jarf Girls High School in the district where around a thousand students are enrolled. Full news...
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June 5, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The teachers’ strike has entered its sixth day but no government official has yet met with the strikers to listen to their demands, the protesters claimed on Saturday. Dozens of teachers from different parts of Kabul gathered at Habibia High School on Saturday where they accused the government of being silent on the issue. Full news...
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May 9, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Afghanistan is caught in a cycle. Few girls go to school. Fewer women become teachers. Social restrictions, insecurity and a severe shortage of female teachers continue to pose a challenge. The Ministry of Education (MoE) says 15 percent of female students drop out of school. The UN children’s agency UNICEF says 3 million Afghan children have never been inside a school; 60 percent are girls. At least 500 schools are closed across the country because of security threats. Full news...
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January 11, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least 119 schools in southern Helmand province remain shut because of insecurity, education officials said on Sunday. Of the 119 schools closed, 77 are situated in northern districts of the province. Education Director Abdul Matin Jafar told Pajhwok Afghan News 14 schools had been reopened this year while 119 were still close. Full news...
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September 22, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Various unwanted factors have led to the closure of more than 80 percent of female schools in western Ghor province, it is learnt. Ghor is home to some 8000 registered schools, including 190 schools for girls. More than 125, 000 boys and 83, 000 girls study in these schools. The provincial chapter of Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has expressed its grave concerns over the closure of so many schools in Ghor. Full news...
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July 23, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents claim tens of thousands of afghanis, which are released by the education department in the name of teacher salaries, end up in pockets of a few individuals in the Maroof district of southern Kandahar province. Education department officials say there are a total of 40 schools in Maroof and eight of them have been closed due to insecurity, but residents reject the claim and say not a single school is operational in the town. Full news...
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May 1, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Belqisa, a grade four student at the Wargha village school, perched on an improvised stool consisting of two bricks stacked together. Around her, in their open-air classroom, fellow students sat either on rocks or on the ground. Looking around her, Belqisa said, “We don’t have a classroom. We study under the blue sky. When it rains, they send us home, but we burn up in the summer heat and shiver in the cold of winter.” Full news...
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January 28, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FoxNews.com: A school being built in Afghanistan with foreign contractors and funds from American taxpayers has become a money pit that is not even safe for students, a U.S. government watchdog said. The Mazar-e-Sharif school in the northern Afghanistan region of Balkh, one of 16 schools built in the war-torn nation under a U.S. Agency for International Development plan, has been deemed structurally unsafe, according to Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko. Full news...
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October 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NPR: It’s one of the most touted "positive statistics" about Afghanistan: Today, there are 10 million Afghans enrolled in school, 40 percent of them female. Under the Taliban, about 1 million boys and almost no girls were attending schools. Western officials routinely point to the revived education system as a sign of success and hope for the future. Full news...
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July 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Fifteen-year-old Afghan schoolboy Emran Khan is proud of his detailed knowledge of Pakistani history. Questioned about the number of provinces in Pakistan, he smiles and answers confidently, “Four states – Sind, Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan.” Asked when Pakistan became independent, he immediately replies that it was on August 14, 1948. Full news...
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July 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: There is not an ounce of fat on the wiry frame of Abdul Wahid, and no wonder. After he finishes his morning work shift, he walks 10 miles down mountain trails in northern Afghanistan to the first road, where he catches a bus for the last couple miles to the teacher training institute in Salang. He walks back up the mountain another 10 miles to get home, arriving well after dark, just in time to rest up for his day job. Full news...
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July 20, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A girls’ high school has been set afire in northern Kunduz province, an official said on Saturday. Militant torched the school in the Aalchi area on the outskirts of Kunduz City late on Friday night, the deputy police chief said. Full news...
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July 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Times: A 3 million USD U.S.-contracted schools project in Afghanistan remains grossly unfinished more than four years after the start of construction because the Army Corps of Engineers did not hold the contractor accountable for the work it has been paid to do, a new report by a U.S. government watchdog says. Full news...
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June 28, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: On paper, it looks as if female education is alive and well in Paktia, a southeastern province of Afghanistan. On closer examination, though, official figures show that three-quarters will drop out around half-way through their schooling. The pattern is partly a reflection of an enduring prejudice against educating women, but sometimes the decision is based on real safety fears in this volatile province. The same is true of many other parts of Afghanistan. Full news...
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June 26, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Fifty girl students fell ill and were hospitalised after drinking water from a well inside their school in the Samkani district of southeastern Paktia province on Wednesday, an official said. Education Director Mehrabuddin told Pajhwok Afghan News the Semin Akbari High School students were hospitalised after they complained of headaches, dizziness and vomiting. Full news...
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June 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: Some 97 girls from two schools in northern Afghanistan have reportedly been hospitalized after falling sick as a result of suspected gas poisoning. In Maimana, the capital of Faryab province, a total of 77 girls from the same school were taken to hospital on Saturday afternoon after they fell ill, Afghan Pajhwok news agency reported on Sunday. Full news...
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May 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least 17 schoolgirls were brought to hospital for possible poisoning in central Bamyan province on Wednesday, a day after 75 schoolgirls fell sick after a suspected poisonous gas attack in northern Faryab province, officials said. The Bamyan Girls’ High School students started vomiting and fell unconscious after smelling gas at their classrooms in the morning... Full news...
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May 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Bulletin: 150 girls got poisoned by a toxic gas at their high school in Afghanistan’s northern state of Balkh. The teachers and students of the Kharti Khorasan Girls’ High School in Mazar-i-Sharif were hospitalized after they got poisoned by a toxic gas which was sprayed at their classrooms. Full news...
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May 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: A number of girls appear to have been poisoned at a school in the Afghan capital, Kabul. A teacher at the Sultan Razia High School told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that students fell ill after smelling some kind of gas when they entered their classrooms on May 1. Full news...
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April 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least 17 high school girls fell ill and lost consciousness after a suspected poisonous gas attack at their school in Taloqan, the capital of northern Takhar province, officials said on Thursday. The female students of 8th, 11th and 12th grade at the Bibi Hawa Girls’ High school smell a poisoning gas on Thursday morning at classrooms before falling unconscious, the education department spokesman Gul Agha Nazari told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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