Tag: Education
Floods sweep future from Pakistan schoolchildren
In Pakistan, where a third of the country lives in hardship on less than US$4 a day, education is a rare ticket out of grinding poverty
Taliban add more compulsory religion classes to Afghan universities
Many conservative Afghan clerics in the hardline Islamist Taliban, which swept back into power a year ago, are skeptical of modern education
Taliban fighters swap arms for books as hundreds return to school
Since the Taliban swept back to power in August last year, hundreds of fighters have returned to school
India’s Cardinal Gracias stresses need for values education in Catholic schools
The curriculum is inclusive of personal, moral, spiritual, emotional, behavioral, social, cultural, aesthetic and patriotic values
India’s southern state schools to go gender neutral
The Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has directed to convert all schools in the state into co-ed schools
Philippine schools to reopen for face-to-face classes in November
"Of course we're careful, but we're always in a hurry because we have to get much done in very little time," said President Marcos
Inside Indonesia’s Islamic boarding school for deaf children
The Islamic boarding school is one of a handful that offer religious education for deaf students in the Muslim-majority country
India’s first Dalit cardinal vows ‘to help as many poor children...
The future cardinal reflects on how the caste system still has remnants and what it is like serving India’s “untouchables”
Teaching helped me survive, says Indian quadruple amputee
"I am a teacher, which means someone who cannot sit still but has to do something with children -- teach them or be with them"
Pope Francis: Catholic schools should not be Christian in name only
“The Christian educator, in the school of Christ, is first of all a witness, and he is a teacher to the extent that he is a witness”
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