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  • February 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghanistan: New Textbooks Baffle Teachers
    IWPR: Teachers as well as pupils at schools in eastern Afghanistan are struggling to get to grips with a newly-introduced curriculum. Some of the textbooks are far too advanced, while others are riddled with mistakes, experts claim. Ninety million US dollars has been spent on compiling and publishing the new set of textbooks.All of them are too young to remember the primer that was used in schools by their own parents. Page one, in Pashto, taught the letter “T” (or te) of the alphabet for topak (“weapon”), and used as an example “My uncle has a weapon”. Page two went further: “J” (jim), for jihad, as in “Jihad is mandatory”, or “Jamil went to jihad” and “I too will go to jihad”. And go he did. (Photo: The Economist)      Full news...

  • November 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Complaints about Schools Grow in Afghanistan
    RFE/RL: Sheila, a 15-year-old Afghan girl, has spent years attending a refugee-camp school on the north side of Kabul. But she still does not know how to write her own name. “I am supposed to study the Koran, Dari, mathematics, Pashto, the English language -- altogether I am enrolled in 11 subjects,” she says. “But there are no lessons at my school because the teachers come for just a few minutes. Then they leave. So we sit there doing nothing.”      Full news...

  • November 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Students stuck with shoddy textbooks
    Killid Group: An ambitious multi-million dollar exercise to modernise the curriculum in Afghan schools has been hit by glaring mistakes in textbooks printed for the first time. Officials have not denied there is a problem, but their views are different. The Ministry of Education (MoE) has paid 91 million dollars for the printing of new textbooks for schools as part of a planned massive overhaul of school education in Afghanistan.      Full news...

  • October 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Girls Miss Years of Schooling in Nangarhar
    IWPR: Girls in rural parts of Nangarhar province in southeastern Afghanistan are missing out on years of schooling because their families see no need for them to be educated. One objection raised by some parents – and an issue that could potentially be resolved – is that there are not enough female teachers in the schools. Nangarhar has a total of 725 schools, of which just 128 are for girls.      Full news...

  • July 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Militants blow up Nangarhar school
    PAN: Unidentified gunmen blew up a boys’ school in the Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Wednesday. The district chief, Haji Abdul Khaliq Maroof, told Pajhwok Afghan News that nearly 45 armed men destroyed the school on Tuesday night.      Full news...

  • July 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Hundreds of schoolgirls poisoned in Jawzjan
    PAN: Nearly 260 schoolgirls were poisoned in Shiberghan city, the capital of northern Jawzjan province, on Monday, officials said. After falling sick, the students of Masrabad School were rushed to the provincial civil hospital and Afghan-Turk hospital, police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Aziz Ghairat told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • June 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Around 100 school girls poisoned in northern Afghanistan
    Khaama Press: According to local authorities in northern Sar-e-Pul province, more than 100 school students were poisoned in this province and were taken to hospital for treatment purposes. The officials further added the incident took place early Saturday morning at Hazrat Imam Zada Yahya high school and the main reason behind the poisoning of the students were unknown.      Full news...

  • June 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Risking their lives for an education
    The Sydney Morning Herald: When the Taliban was ousted from Afghanistan in 2001, there were 5000 girls enrolled in schools across the country. A little over a decade on, that number is 2.4 million. Today, in the capital Kabul, the sight of dozens of girls walking to school together is so commonplace as to be unremarkable. But for girls in Afghanistan, getting an education remains a fraught, and at times, dangerous endeavour.      Full news...

  • June 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    97 Takhar students poisoned
    PAN: At least 97 students of the Bashirabad girls’ high school in the northern province of Takhar were poisoned on Saturday, officials said. Seven schoolgirls are in critical condition while the rest were discharged from hospital after treatment, Public Health Director Habibullah Rostaqi told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • June 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Feature: War-weary Afghan children long for peace, schooling
    Xinhua: “We want peace and schooling,” said Shah Mirza, an 11-year-old Afghan child, although he was unaware of the International Children's Day which falls on June 1 every year. Attired in school uniform, Mirza was in a hurry on Thursday morning to reach the classroom on time. Mirza, the fourth-grader who wanted to become an engineer in the future, was studying in a local school set up by a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO).      Full news...

  • May 28, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Scared Tagab students stay away from schools
    PAN: A number of schoolchildren in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province on Monday complained they could not go to schools because of security posts established nearby. Taj Mohammad, a ninth class student at the Shaheed Abdul Ghayas Middle School, told Pajhwok Afghan News local police had established their posts near their school. Fearing militant attacks on the security personnel, students were not willing to go to the school, he said.      Full news...

  • May 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    43 Takhar schoolgirls poisoned again
    PAN: Once again radicals opposing girls’ education on Sunday poisoned more than three dozen schoolgirls in northern Takhar province, the third incident of its kind over the past two months, officials said. The victims, students of the Bibi Hajira High School, situated on the 5th road of Taloqan city, the provincial capital, fell sick for unknown reasons...      Full news...

  • May 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    More than 120 Afghan girls poisoned in second anti-school attack
    Reuters: More than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned in the second attack in as many months blamed on conservative radicals in the country’s north, Afghan police and education officials said on Wednesday. The attack occurred in Takhar province where police said that radicals opposed to education of women and girls had used an unidentified toxic powder to contaminate the air in classrooms. Scores of students were left unconscious.      Full news...

  • May 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Gunmen torch school in Baghlan
    PAN: Unidentified gunmen set fire to a boys’ school in the northern province of Baghlan, affecting hundreds of students, officials said on Saturday. The incident took place late on Friday night in the Kishanabad area of Banu district, the town’s administrative head, Abdul Wali Hamidi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. A delegation was sent to the area to assess the damage, he said.      Full news...

  • May 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    600 students poisoned in Khost
    PAN: Hundreds of schoolchildren were poisoned in the Ismailkhel Mandozai district of southeastern Khost province on Tuesday, an official said. The incident took place in the Urzi area, where all the 600 students of a middle school were poisoned, education department spokesman Syed Musa Majrooh told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • May 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Insurgent threats shut Farah schools
    PAN: Local officials in western Farah province said on Monday that there was no school in Bakwa district while militant threats had forced the closure of five schools in Gulistan town. There was only one school that Taliban fighters destroyed five years ago, depriving many girls and boys of education Bakwa, said Mohammad Ismail, the district’s administrative chief.      Full news...

  • April 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan Textbooks Skip Decades of Violence
    IWPR: In a highly controversial move, Afghanistan’s education ministry has dealt with the complexities of the last four decades of turmoil and war by simply omitting the entire period from the new history textbooks it is issuing to schools. Officials argue that the decision to pass over contentious events of recent history is an attempt to heal rifts in Afghan society and avoid further strife.      Full news...

  • March 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghanistan: The Ghost Teachers of Ghor
    IWPR: Hayatollah is supposed to be teaching history and geography for grades six to nine at the Kahrezak Secondary School, located 60 kilometres from Chaghcharan, the provincial centre of Ghor province in central Afghanistan. But when asked to identify Ahmad Shah Durrani, the first king of Afghanistan, the 22-year-old teacher replied with a smile that he did not know who he was.      Full news...

  • February 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Millions spent on no-show teachers in Afghanistan
    IWPR: Hakimi Hayatollah is supposed to be teaching history and geography to students at the Kahrezak secondary school in Ghor province in central Afghanistan. But there’s a problem: Hayatollah knows neither Afghan history nor geography. He’s stumped when asked to identify Ahmad Shah Durrani, the first king of Afghanistan. The only major river in the country the 22-year-old can name is one that runs through Ghor province, from which it takes its name.      Full news...

  • October 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Many Daikundi schools without buildings
    PAN: With almost 76 percent of schools across Daikundi province having proper buildings, more than 100,000 students are still studying under tents, officials said on Friday. A total of 334 schools are operating in the province, Director of Education Sardar Ali Jafri told Pajhwok Afghan News. As many as 118,104 students are taught under trees, in mosques and rented houses.      Full news...

  • October 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    2 girls’ schools set on fire in Nangarhar
    PAN: Suspected militants stormed two girls’ schools in the Batikot district of eastern Nangarhar province, destroying one and partially damaging the other, officials said on Sunday. The schools were set on fire in Chahardi and Barikab areas late on Saturday night, district chief, Israrullah Qarizada, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • July 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Grenade attack at Afghan school injures 25
    CNN: At least 25 people were injured Sunday when a man on a motorbike hurled a grenade at a high school in northern Afghanistan, an official said. The blast injured at least 17 students at the school -- three of them seriously -- said Ahmad Jawed Bedar, a spokesman for the governor of Faryab province.      Full news...

  • June 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Students complain about low-quality books
    PAN: Students in Kabul are complaining about the low quality of newly published school books, saying they are bound poorly and falling apart. Last year, the Ministry of Education published and distributed 42 million books to primary and secondary school students. The books’ bindings are not stapled and the pages fall out easily, Nabila, a fourth-grader at Kabul Al-fath School, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • June 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    School hit in rocket attack, principal killed
    PAN: A rocket struck a school in central Kapisa province, killing the principle, and injuring two teachers and five students, officials said on Sunday. The rocket landed on Wahdat High School at 11am during a clash between Taliban fighters and security personnel in Tagab district, the district police chief, Col. Padshah Gul Bakhtyar, told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • May 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Girls’ schools closed in Logar after Taliban threats
    PAN: Eight schools for girls have been closed in the central province of Logar due to threats from Taliban, an official said on Saturday. Two schools were closed in provincial capital, Pul-i-Alam, and six others in Baraki Barak district, Education Director Abdul Matin Jafar told Pajhwok Afghan News.      Full news...

  • May 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Taliban kill head of Afghan girls’ school
    Reuters: Taliban gunmen have killed the headteacher of a girls’ school near the Afghan capital after he ignored warnings to stop teaching girls, government officials have said. Khan Mohammad, the head of the Porak girls’ school in Logar province, was shot dead near his home on Tuesday, said Deen Mohammad Darwish, a spokesman for the Logar governor.      Full news...

  • March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Armed conflict keeps millions out of school: UNESCO
    AFP: Armed conflict is keeping 28 million children around the world out of schools, where they are often targets of sexual abuse and violence, according to a report released Tuesday by UNESCO. The report titled “The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education” said that 42 percent of children not enrolled in schools around the world live in poor countries wracked by conflict.      Full news...

  • February 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Threat to girls’ education in Afghanistan: report
    AFP: Progress made on ensuring girls in Afghanistan go to school is at risk as foreign countries prepare to withdraw from the war-torn country, a coalition of 16 aid agencies warned Thursday. It added that many donors are increasingly focusing on counter-insurgency projects rather than education ahead of Afghanistan’s army and police taking control of security in 2014 from international troops.      Full news...

  • January 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Who benefits from Taliban revisionism?
    The Guardian: Farooq Wardak, the Afghan education minister and a key ally of President Hamid Karzai, claims that the Taliban leadership no longer opposes education for girls. The question is not whether this claim is true – teachers and students who continue to be terrorised by Taliban attacks would find it laughable – but why a senior Afghan official would engage in such misinformation.      Full news...

  • January 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Violence, tradition keep millions of Afghans from school
    Reuters: Worsening security and enduring conservative Islamic customs prevented almost five million Afghan children from going to school in 2010, a government official said on Saturday. The strict Islamist Taliban were ousted from power by U.S.-backed Afghan forces nearly a decade ago, but many women are still not able to work outside the home and girls are prevented from attending school in remote parts of the country.      Full news...



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