カテゴリー: Education
At Malalay school in Lashkar Gah, female staff struggle into work despite anxiety over their jobs and half their pupils missingThe walls of the Malalay school, in the centre of Lashkar Gah, Helmand, are pockmarked with bullets from the last weeks of bi…
Caroline Lucas warns five of those studying in Brighton feel desperate about relatives’ safety in AfghanistanChevening scholars from Afghanistan are receiving threatening messages from the Taliban about what they intend to do to harm their relatives ba…
Government announces re-opening of high schools for boys but makes no mention of girlsThe Taliban have effectively banned girls from secondary education in Afghanistan, by ordering high schools to re-open only for boys.Girls were not mentioned in Frida…
Government has prioritised rescue of current scholars but estimated 70 alumni are still in countryA group of former Chevening scholars have accused the British government of abandoning them in Afghanistan, where they say their lives are at grave risk f…
The most vulnerable people will bear the cost of sanctions, as services and the economy collapseWatching Afghanistan’s unfolding trauma, I’ve thought a lot about Mumtaz Ahmed, a young teacher I met a few years ago. Her family fled Kabul during Taliban …
Hundreds of millions of children fell behind around the world as schools closed during the pandemic. We look at four countries as pupils try to resume their education‘Lost generation’: education in quarter of countries at risk of collapse, study warnsC…
Covid, climate breakdown, poverty and war threaten return to school after pandemic kept 1.5bn children out of classes‘Their future could be destroyed’: the global struggle for schooling after Covid closuresThe education of hundreds of millions of child…
Educators say they fear reversal of hard-won progress as aid workers call for Taliban’s desire for international legitimacy to be used as leverageAfghanistan’s only boarding school for girls has temporarily relocated to Rwanda, its co-founder has said,…
Fears Chevening scholarship students blocked by Foreign Office could become targets of TalibanTaliban enter Kabul – live updatesBoris Johnson has promised that the government will try to help 35 Afghan students get visas to travel to the UK, after they…
LGBTQ+ rights in Japan | Literary incorrectness | PMQs | A marital palindrome | Cross wordsMany congratulations to Tom Daley on his magnificent win with Matty Lee. Probably worth pointing out, though, that while your article is correct in saying that s…
Stiff competition and cultural barriers are overcome by students gaining access to an education out of reach for most at an academy in Uttar PradeshManu Chauhan used to dread running out of notebooks and pens. Though school in the village of Akrabad in…
The events of 1947 and their impact are clearly part and parcel of British history, writes Professor Sarah Ansari In view of the forthcoming 74th anniversary of the partition that accompanied independence in British-controlled South Asia, the call for …
Many are beginning to fear the world may soon be caught in the crossfire between Beijing and WashingtonIn July 1971, US national security adviser Henry Kissinger embarked on a secret mission to China, then America’s sworn enemy. This 48-hour ice-breaki…
When Covid shut schools, fees still had to be paid even if rural pupils could not access online lessons Iqbal Khan works as a chauffeur in Lahore. His children are in his home village in a rural area north of Peshawar. Both of these very different area…