An Indonesian court on Monday sentenced a teacher to death for raping 13 girls at an Islamic school, upholding the prosecutor’s plea for death penalty. The case of Herry Wirawan has stunned Indonesia and has drawn attention to the need to protect children from sexual violence in religious boarding schools.

Indonesian teacher condemned to death for raping 13 students

The World Bank has suspended four projects worth $600 million in Afghanistan in response to the Taliban barring girls from attending high school. The projects aimed at improving education, health and agriculture, among others.

World Bank suspends projects in Afghanistan after Taliban prohibit girls from school

Women's rights activists pledged Sunday to launch a wave of protests across Afghanistan if the Taliban fail to reopen girls' secondary schools within a week. Thousands of secondary school girls had flocked to classes on Wednesday after the hardline Islamists reopened their institutions for the first time since seizing power last August.

Nationwide protests if Afghan girls' schools stay shut: Activists

The United States said on Friday that it has cancelled planned talks in Doha with the Taliban after the hardline Islamist rulers of Afghanistan shut girls' secondary schools.

US cancels talks with Taliban in Doha after girls school closure

About two dozen girls and women chanting "open the schools" protested in the Afghan capital Saturday against the Taliban's decision to shut their secondary schools just hours after re-opening them this week.

'Open the schools': Afghan girls protest in Kabul

The Taliban have reversed a decision to allow teenage girls back to secondary school despite repeated assurances they could resume classes from Wednesday. WION speaks to Fariah Saidi, Journalist and women's right activist for more insights.

Taliban reverse decision to allow girls attend secondary school

The Swiss tennis great Roger Federer has said he is 'horrified' and 'heartbroken' by the war in Ukraine, offering financial help for Ukrainian children. Federer wrote on social media on Friday that his foundation will donate $500,000 "to establish access to continued schooling for Ukrainian children.

Roger Federer announce financial help of USD 500,000 towards education of Ukrainian children

A team from the Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI) arrived at the Michaelpatti village in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district to probe the suicide of a minor schoolgirl.

Tamil Nadu: CBI visits school, begins probe in alleged forced Conversion, suicide of minor girl

Classrooms abuzz with students wearing masks, queues at canteens and roadside eateries, and bustling crowds at nearby metro stations -- the Delhi University campus in India's capital New Delhi, came alive on Thursday as students returned to colleges after a gap of almost two years.

Delhi University colleges reopen, students back on campus after two years

A students' organisation has urged the youths from Jammu and Kashmir, who are studying in other parts of the country, to focus on their education and career, control their emotions and not to write provocative things on social media.

Focus on your education and career, avoid getting provoked: Students from J&K urged

A 15-year-old Spanish boy was arrested on Saturday for allegedly shooting dead his parents and 10-year-old brother following a row over bad school grades, police said.

15-year-old Spanish boy mercilessly kills parents, 10-year-old brother in argument over bad grades

Syria's decade-long conflict has forced children out of the classroom and into child labour, where they work long hours to support their families in difficult conditions to put food on the table and provide education for their siblings, so they don't have to suffer the same fate. Ghadi Francis brings you their story.

The West Asia Post: Syria's children forced out of school and into work

A group of women protesters demanding rights to work and education in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul were attacked with pepper spray gas by the Taliban forces on Sunday.

Women protesters seeking rights to work, education attacked with pepper spray by Taliban

On the first Tuesday of the year, author and political activist Don Winslow tweeted a photograph of an avid reader’s dream library. Bathed in the buttery glow of three table lamps, almost every surface of the room is covered with books.

A library the internet can’t get enough of

Taliban rulers have said that they are hoping to open all schools for girls across the country after the Afghan New Year, which starts on March 21, reports the Associated Press.

Taliban to allow Afghan girls to attend school after the Afghan New Year

Acting Afghan Higher Education Minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani on Sunday said ''co-education is against Islamic values.'' He also added that his government does not oppose women's education but rather the concept of men and women studying together.

Co-education is against Islamic values, says Afghan Education Minister

David C Banks began his first morning as New York City’s schools chancellor-in-waiting with a warning to the city’s educational bureaucracy: The nation’s largest school system had betrayed too many of its students by paying the salaries of administrators who did not improve the lives of children, funded by a bloated budget that produced abysmal results for too many Black and Latino students.

New NYC schools chancellor vows to tackle education bureaucracy

Education is the key to women empowerment. Educated women tend to marry later, have a higher age at first birth, and fewer children. On Mission Sustainability, experts analyse the importance of educating and empowering women.

Mission Sustainability: Education is the key to women empowerment

Fact: Educated women generally have fewer children than uneducated women. Watch how Project Aakar is promoting female education in Uttar Pradesh.

Mission Sustainability: Population vs Planet

The Taliban will announce a new framework that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan "soon," a senior United Nations official said. "The de facto minister of education told us that they are working on a framework, which they will announce soon, that will allow all girls to go to secondary school, and we are expecting that to happen very soon," UNICEF deputy executive director Omar Abdi said at the United Nations in New York on Friday.

Taliban to announce plans for girls' education 'soon': UN

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) issued the country`s first gender bonds on Monday to promote empowerment and education of women and ensure gender equality in developing nations.

Japan issues 1st gender bonds to promote female empowerment, education

Sounding a warning on what is at stake for education in Afghanistan, UNESCO has said advances since 2001 must be upheld in the face of a looming humanitarian crisis.

Amid looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, critical gains on education must be upheld: UN

Uzbekistan will allow girls to wear headscarves in schools in a bid to ensure devout Muslim families send their daughters to school, the Central Asian country's education ministry said.

In a bid to boost attendance, Uzbekistan will allow girls to wear headscarves in schools

In the latest measure to help relieve parental and student pressure, China has decided to ban written exams for six and seven-year-olds. The evaluation of students was earlier based on their performance on exams taken from the very first year of primary school to university entrance exams when they turned 18.

To help relieve parental and student pressure, China bans exams for six-seven year olds

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