Education
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Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’
Report reveals how US Christians, Catholic schools and Islamists fight sex education, LGBTQ+ and equal rightsE…
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Morality and rules, and how to avoid drowning: what my daughters learned at Chinese communist school
Our twins spent two years at primary school in Chengdu. Their lessons featured alarming cautionary tales and s…
- Aung San Suu Kyi, Children's rights, Conflict and arms, Education, Global development, Myanmar, South and Central Asia, World news
Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report
Analysis of imagery from conflict zones shows evidence of burned-out and flattened buildings, with long-term i…
- Afghanistan, Education, Global development, Global education, Iran, Middle East and North Africa, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Nothing compensates for the stolen years’: the Afghan women rebuilding shattered dreams in Iran
More than 1,000 days after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, women and girls are reluctantly seeking ed…
- Afghanistan, Education, Global development, Global education, Global health, Life and style, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, Women's health, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
‘Nobody is coming to help us’: Afghan teenage girls on life without school
Barred from school for 1,000 days, girls in Afghanistan face forced marriage, violence and isolation with no e…
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Empty classrooms, silent halls: Taiwan’s declining birthrate forces schools to close
Authorities fear looming economic crises caused by an expanding elderly population without enough workers to s…
- Education, Higher education, Immigration and asylum, India, Politics, South and Central Asia, Students, UK news, World news
Rishi Sunak backtracks plan to restrict graduate visas after cabinet opposition
Ministers argued for radical crackdown on visas would be damaging for universities and UK economyPlans for a r…
- Children, Education, Global development, Global education, Literacy, Pakistan, Poverty, Social exclusion, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
Tall tales but no dessert: the storyteller of Karachi and his ice-cream cart library
In a country where 77% of 10-year-olds are illiterate, a reading scheme in Pakistan is reaching thousands of c…
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Mental health leave offered to Taiwanese students as youth suicides double
Scheme allows three days off each term as high school stress and depression rates soarTaiwanese high schools w…
- Bhutan, Climate crisis, Climate science, Education, Environment, Glaciers, Mountaineering, Mountains, South and Central Asia, World news
Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist
Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glacier specialist and the only person authorised to climb the Himalayan country…
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Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist
Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glacier specialist and the only person authorised to climb the Himalayan country…
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Every day’s a school day: the great-grandmother who goes to primary school
A 92-year-old woman, in an area of India with low literacy rates, is inspiring others to learn how to read and…
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British private schools in China under threat as new ‘patriotic’ law comes in
Beijing steps up its efforts to tighten control of what is taught in its classrooms, deterring western teacher…
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Academic paper based on Uyghur genetic data retracted over ethical concerns
Exclusive: Study published in 2019 used blood and saliva samples from 203 Uyghur and Kazakh people living in X…
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Taliban causing ‘irreversible damage’ to whole education system in Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch warns bar on women means unqualified men now teach boys, fewer subjects are taught and beat…