KABUL (PAN): Private sector universities on Tuesday offered free admissions, fee discount and other privileges to high school graduates who failed to qualify this year's university entry test.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Closed as a result of insecurity, a school was reopened on Monday in the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province, taking the number of operational schools to 15 in the volatile town, an official said.
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Construction work was launched on a library and media centre at the journalism faculty of Kandahar University on Wednesday, officials said.
QALAT (PAN): Up to 25 schools, previously closed for security reasons, have reopened over the past one year in southern Zabul province, where another 133 schools remain shut due to a lack of interest by the residents concerned, a senior education official said on Friday.
HERAT CITY (PAN): The Italian ambassador to Afghanistan on Tuesday said his country would provide 600 million euros (42.2 billion afs) in assistance to western Herat province for reconstruction and training Afghan forces over the next three years.
KABUL (PAN): The Kabul University would award first-ever PhD degrees in literature in Afghanistan in next academic year, the minister of higher education said on Saturday.
KABUL (PAN): About 500 Afghan National Police (ANP) officials returned home from professional training courses in Turkey, an official said on Saturday.
