It would take them around five years to fundamentally transform the education system ... or religious schools, exist in many Islamic countries. In Afghanistan, these schools are controlled ...

Afghanistan's education system has had to endure decades of conflict ... universities are teaching 23,000 girls and boys in 21 schools under the Teach for Afghanistan scheme launched at the ...

New research shows that Afghan women earned 13% more for every additional year of schooling they received after the Taliban ...

Reconstructing the education system was a top priority ... UNICEF's 'Back to School' campaign in Afghanistan was one of the biggest operations in its history. Books and other materials were ...

from attending school. In Afghanistan, the new school year began ... a gunman stormed a mosque in Andisheh town of Guzara district in Herat province, western Afghanistan. Six people were killed ...

It's been nearly two years since girls in Afghanistan were banned by the Taliban from entering a high school classroom. But in a brave act of defiance, hundreds of girls attend secret schools to ...

“It changed my life and I really owe it to them,” he said of the school, which he describes as Afghanistan’s LaGuardia, a public high school in New York specialised in teaching music and art ...

Activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai spoke out about the Taliban’s decision to continue banning girls from secondary education in Afghanistan. Malala Yousafzai has called the ...

At least 12 civilians have been killed in an air strike on a religious school in the northern Afghan ... began with a Taliban attack in Baharak district some 15km (nine miles) from Taloqan ...