KABUL: Save the Children, an organization active in protecting children urged the Afghan government to properly enforce its corporal punishment ban following reports that a high school student died after facing violence at school. The incident took place in the ...

Happy International Day of the Girl to all girls around the world, especially to the Afghan girls across the country. This day also called the Day of the Girl, and the International Day of the Girl, and it declared as ...

PESHAWAR: The University of Peshawar, in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, plans to set up a centre for refugee and migration studies. The Department of International Relations said on Sunday it was considering the plan, which was discussed ...

KABUL: President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday stressed the need for fundamental changes in the higher education system, saying politics had no room in universities. He said the higher education institutes should be used as centres of interaction and openness. Addressing a gathering ...

KABUL: The Ministry of Higher Education of Afghanistan on Saturday announced the Kankor results for the enrollment of the eligible students to State universities and other high education State and private institutes. The officials of the Ministry of Higher Education ...

KABUL: President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has rejected the proposed uniforms for the school girls prepared by the Ministry of Education. Shah Hussain Murtazawi, a spokesman for President Ghani, said the proposed designed has been dismissed as in appropriate and in ...

KABUL: Taliban insurgents have destroyed some 300 schools in the past two months as they wage war on education, local officials said on Monday. The latest attack was three days ago when Taliban burst into a girls’ school in northern ...

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) will send 10,000 scholars to the United States for PhD studies in next 10 years. These scholars will get admissions in agriculture and food security, medical and allied health sciences, energy, water, climate change, ...

I was recently awarded a fellowship by the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) in Germany. After receiving the necessary documentation from my host institution Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), I proceeded to apply for a German visa ...

KABUL: A Pakistani official has said scholarships have been granted to at least 2,000 Afghan students in different colleges in the country including engineering and medical. Abdul Qadir Baloch has informed regarding the approval of the scholarships to the Afghan ...