Sam Verzosa says education is in crisis as children study for hours but underperform in testsA lawmaker in the Philippines has proposed banning schools from setting homework at weekends, saying students are overworked and need to recharge.Sam Verzosa, …
続きを読むBalaknama’s reports on sexual abuse, police brutality and child labour, written by teenagers, have transformed lives in IndiaIn a dingy basement office in Delhi, a semi-circle of young teenagers sit on woven mats discussing the news. It is the monthly …
続きを読むNeda Mohammad Nadeem says ban was necessary to prevent mixing of genders as rare protests break outThe minister of higher education in Afghanistan’s Taliban government has defended his decision to ban women from universities – a decree that triggered a…
続きを読むHigher education ministry issues indefinite order three months after thousands sat entrance examsAfghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country’s women, the ministry of higher education said in a let…
続きを読むYoung men who have spent most of their lives in combat are learning how to behave with civilians as the Taliban transitions from fighting to governingAround a conference room table, young Taliban fighters quietly listen to an instructor teaching them h…
続きを読むWomen required to attend separate classes and follow dress code at facilities in Kandahar and Helmand as they restart classes for first time since Taliban takeoverPublic universities in Kandahar and Helmand provinces in Afghanistan have reopened after …
続きを読むNationwide test for teenagers included passage indicating female independence was undermining discipline in the homeAn Indian exam board has withdrawn a passage from a nationwide English exam that appeared to promote the subservience of wives, after an…
続きを読む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…
続きを読む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…
続きを読む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…
続きを読む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…
続きを読む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…
続きを読むSome of the UK’s best-loved illustrators, including Axel Scheffler, Debi Gliori and Jackie Morris, have created artworks telling the stories of children in rural Nepal who struggle to get an education. The pictures are being raffled by the charity Unit…
続きを読む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…
続きを読むFatima Khalil school has given some children the first taste of education – and love – in their livesLaughter and excited chatter burst out of the colourfully painted classrooms. In a quiet garden schoolhouse amid the jam-packed Afghan capital, Kabul, …
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