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Education

President names Roshan as higher education minister

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Jun 22, 2017 - 15:53
KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani has nominated Abdul Latif Roshan as his minister of higher education (MoHE), the Presidential Palace said on Thursday.
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Emergency classes set up for returnee students

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Pajhwok
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Jun 20, 2017 - 20:57
KABUL (Pajhwok): Swedish Committee for Afghanistan has established 98 classes for children of families returning from Pakistan to eastern Nangarhar province. The classes have been set up in Rodat, Behsud, Surkhrod and Kama districts where a total of...
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KABUL , May 17, 2017: Today the first one-day exhibition of calligraphy, drawing and crafts, students of the 16th educational district in Ghazi School was held on the initiative of the Education Department in Kabul.

Old traditions keeping half of Logar girls out of school

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Abdul Maqsud Azizi
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Jun 18, 2017 - 17:37
PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Lawlessness and old traditions have prevented about 50 percent of girls from attending school in central Logar province, the provincial women ’s affairs director says. Shima Zargar told Pajhwok Afghan News that many families in...
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Paktika residents donate 23m afs to boost education

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Rahim Khan Khoshal
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Jun 13, 2017 - 17:19
SHARAN (Pajhwok): Local residents donated 23 million afghanis for education development in southeastern Paktika province this year, education officials said on Tuesday.
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Efforts on to reduce Bamyan women illiteracy

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Jun 13, 2017 - 16:49
BAMYAN (Pajhwok): Conflict, poverty and insecurity have long deprived women in central Bamyan province of education , however efforts at reducing women’s illiteracy rate have been launched. According to the provincial education department, currently...
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In Sharan, not a single high school for girls

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Rahim Khan Khoshal
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Jun 11, 2017 - 14:44
SHARAN (Pajhwok): Thousands of girls are deprived of high education in the capital of southeastern Paktika province due to the non-existence of high schools. Marwa, a resident of Sharan, told Pajhwok Afghan News not a single high school for girls...
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30 schoolgirls fall ill, hospitalized in Ghazni

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Saifullah Maftoon
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Jun 07, 2017 - 18:10
GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): About 30 girl students of a high school have been apparently poisoned in Jaghori district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Wednesday.
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Ghazni students complain of trained teachers’ shortage

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Saifullah Maftoon
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May 31, 2017 - 16:46
GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): School students in southern Ghazni province complain they are faced with a shortage of professional teachers, an issue that has not received due attention from the relevant quarters. A provincial council member, Hamidullah...
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Violence against women surges in Logar last year

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Abdul Maqsud Azizi
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May 30, 2017 - 17:52
PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): The level of violence against women increased by nearly 80 percent last year compared to the previous year in central Logar province, the provincial Women’s Affairs Department head said on Tuesday. Shima Zargar told Pajhwok...
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Thousands of Bamyan women attend literacy courses this year

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May 29, 2017 - 18:34
BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Education (MoE) says as many as 15,000 people, mostly women , have been enrolled for literacy courses this solar year in central Bamyan province. Sardar Mohammad Rahimi, MoE’s deputy head for literacy, told...
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Balkh schoolchildren used to colorize political events

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Zaibullah Ihsas
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May 23, 2017 - 21:32
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): 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...
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Primary school for girls blown up in Ghazni capital

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Saifullah Maftoon
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May 22, 2017 - 13:39
GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): A girls’ school was blown up by unidentified people in the capital of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Monday. Education Director Mohammad Abid Abid told Pajhwok Afghan News the Albiruni Primary School in...
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Bamyan schools get 165 new teachers

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May 19, 2017 - 15:06
BAMYAN CITY (Pajhwok): Over 580 contenders have appeared in a test for 165 teacher positions on Friday in central Bamyan province, an official said on.
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Taliban ask teachers to compile results in their presence

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Yousuf Zarifi
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May 19, 2017 - 00:23
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Some teachers in eastern Nangarhar province have accused the Taliban of interfering in their work, saying they have been warned not to prepare results without being supervised by the insurgents. The Taliban have allegedly...
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Girls’ school set alight; Taliban deny involvement

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Qutbuddin Kohi
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May 18, 2017 - 14:05
MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen have set a girls school on fire in the Pashtunkot district of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Thursday. Education Director Ghulam Sakhi Bayan confirmed the incident, saying gunmen torched the...
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Nearly 200 schools lack buildings in Jawzjan

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Hamid Tamkin
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May 16, 2017 - 18:23
SHIBERGHAN (Pajhwok): Local education officials on Tuesday said 184 of 403 schools in northern Jawzjan province lacked buildings and their students attended classes in the open. Provincial education director, Abdul Hai Yashin, presenting his...
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Ghazni students struggling with textbooks shortage

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Saifullah Maftoon
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May 15, 2017 - 22:12
GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): A number of provincial council members and residents of southern Ghazni province on Monday complained about the shortage of textbooks in schools despite the passage of two months of the current academic year.
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50 school students poisoned in Kabul

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Zarghona Salehai
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May 14, 2017 - 14:52
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Education (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...
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In 16 years, 1st girls’ school opens in Tagab district

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Bakhtar Safi
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May 12, 2017 - 14:07
MAHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): A school for girls has opened in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province after more than a decade and a half, an official said on Friday. Education Director Mohammad Nasim told Pajhwok Afghan News the school, which was...
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Kama teachers seek immediate release of colleagues

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Yousuf Zarifi
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May 12, 2017 - 12:18
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Teachers in the Kama district of eastern Nangarhar province on Friday demanded the immediate release of their colleagues and distribution of land plots to them. A number of schoolteachers were arrested late on Thursday when they...
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