by Kashif Abbasi in Dawn, Sept 23, 2023• Dictator Zia banned student unions in 1984 to quell uprisings• CJP Isa lends support to syndicate’s decisionISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa on Friday lent his support to a decision to revive the Quaid-i-Azam University’s (QAU) students’ union, a move that, it is hoped, will pave the way for the revival of student unions in other universities as well. The decision was taken during a…
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by Basant Pratap Singh in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 19, 2023Bindu Chand, a 10th grader at Ganesh Secondary School in ward 6 of Sigas Rural Municipality in Baitadi district, has to wade across the Nwaghari river risking her life to go to school and return home. All her clothes get wet while crossing the river. It is her routine to stay the whole day in class with the wet clothes. “It’s quite difficult during my…
By Mitra Majeedy in ToloNews, Sept 5, 2023 at 9:25 PMFemale students raised concerns over their lack of participation in the kankor exam a day after the results of the 1402 (solar year) were released. They said that they want to go to school and university like boys and play a role in society. Female students once again asked the Islamic Emirate to immediately open schools and universities for girls. “Yesterday, when the results were…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, March 26,2023As more results of the Free Students Union election come from Tribhuvan University constituent and affiliated campuses across the country, the wings of Nepali Congress and CPN-UML have emerged as the two largest student organisations. The rival groups have differing claims of the March 9 vote’s outcome as the university administration is yet to compile all the results and make them public. Polls have yet to be held on…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 12, 2023Representatives from student unions registered their candidacies for various posts including office bearers and members of the Free Student Union in hundreds of colleges under the Tribhuvan University across the country on Saturday. The university is holding student union elections for 62 constituent and 523 community colleges under it on March 19. Aspirants registered their candidacies in 50 of the 62 constituent campuses on Saturday as…
report in Prothom Alo, 03 Jan 2023Nine students of different schools and colleges of the country were made members of a Facebook group titled ‘Duniya Kiye Musafir’. In the group, they were inspired to radicalism in the name of religious education. Days later, they were engaged to another group on Telegram, a social media platform, where they were taught about different religious issues in a bid to radicalise their minds. At a stage, they were…
By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, dec 27, 2022 at 9:52 PMActing Minister of Petroleum and Mines Shahabuddin Delawar on Tuesday said that a decision will be made soon regarding schools and universities for female students. He referred to the decree of the Islamic Emirate’s supreme leader and said it was instructing a temporary order. He said the decision will be made in the first month of the next solar year (April 2023) based on the…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, Dec 27, 2022Authorities of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan closed two educational centers in Kabul and Herat accommodating more than 1200 female students. Roya Mahboob, the Founder of the Afghan Girls Robotic Team tweeted on Monday that the Taliban authorities forcibly shut the education centers in Herat and Kabul. More than a thousand female students were taking pieces training in business, Robotics, coding, and Information Communications Technology. Following the…