Education

This is UNESCO’s first Teacher’s Guide on the Prevention of Violent Extremism through education. This document has been developed in direct response to the needs of UNESCO’s Member States as expressed in the landmark 197/EX […]

Author: Jelena Bjelica Date: 29 October 2017 Afghanistan Analyst – Some schools are working better than others. MEC found ‘community-based education centres’ performing “significantly better” than their government counterparts. This school, run by NGO PARSA, is in a […]

In November 2016, during ICAN’s fifth annual Women, Peace and Security forum, members of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL) and other women-led organizations in over 30 countries analyzed the role of formal and […]

The Diplomat – In areas under Taliban control, schools are being reshaped to fit the Taliban agenda Two years ago, the Taliban paid a visit to 13-year-old Jamal’s* school in the northern province of Kunduz in […]

Class dismissed at Kandahar Institute of Modern Studies, a rare place of learning for girls, as military withdrawal affects civilian projects

126th (year VIII) debate GOFTEGU: Who carries the torch of knowledge? On the occasion of International days of teachers & students and to mark the beginning of Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA’s 8th year of public debates. In collaboration with IFA & Ibn Sina University.

Armanshahr Foundation’s 120th (year VII) GOFTEGU public debate, a bridge between the elite and the citizens, was held in collaboration with Cooperation Center for Afghanistan at the French Institute of Afghanistan on 29th August 2013 with the title of “TASK OF THE NEXT GOVERNMENT IN THE FACE OF THE MONSTER OF ILLITERACY”.

Education in crisis. The mix of poverty, insecurity & lack of trained teachers in Ghor made many parents refrain from sending. Empty classrooms, fake girls’ schools, teachers’ salaries siphoned off by warlords: in Afghanistan’s west, the shadows of strongmen loom large.

The past decades have seen the establishment of a firm global trend towards abolition. Future progress will mainly depend on the education our children receive as they are tomorrow’s citizens, politicians, defendants, judges and lawyers. […]