| AFGHANISTAN: Schools to reopen for exams after H1N1 shutdown |
 KABUL, 17 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - The government has decided to reopen all schools from 23 November to 12 December to allow 7.5 million schoolchildren across Afghanistan to take exams.
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PAKISTAN: New schools in quake-hit areas offer improved education |  MUZZAFARABAD, 15 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Rameesha Butt, 12, remembers being trapped in her classroom as the horror of the October 2005 earthquake that killed at least 73,000 people in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Pakistan-administered Kashmir unfolded around her.
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TAJIKISTAN: Struggling to learn in cramped, dangerous classrooms |  RUDAKI, 11 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Six months after floods hit parts of southern-central Tajikistan, damaging or destroying dozens of schools and other buildings, hundreds of students are still attending school in overcrowded and sometimes unsafe buildings, according to local teachers and officials.
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In Brief: Nine million Afghans living on less than a dollar a day - survey |  KABUL, 5 November 2009 (IRIN Global) - The average per capita monthly expenditure of nine million Afghans is less than 66 US cents a day, and millions of other Afghans spend about $42 a month, according to a summary of Afghanistan’s new National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA).
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BANGLADESH: Corporal punishment widespread - UNICEF |  DHAKA, 3 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - A new report by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says most children in Bangladesh are regularly exposed to physical abuse at school, at home or where they work.
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AFGHANISTAN: WHO official supports H1N1 emergency measures |  KABUL, 3 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - A UN World Health Organization (WHO) official has backed the Afghan government’s health emergency declaration which involves a three-week closure of all schools and universities in Afghanistan as a means of preventing the spread of H1N1 influenza. He called it an “appropriate and timely measure” to curb its spread.
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PAKISTAN: No specs no school |  LAHORE, 1 November 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Like most blind and low-vision children in Pakistan - as well as many with correctable vision - Kaneez Fatima, 10, does not go to school. “She cannot see the blackboard clearly. We do not know why. So her teacher said she could not learn,” Kaneez’s mother, Bushra Bibi, told IRIN.
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In Brief: Travel restrictions hit Gaza students |  TEL AVIV, 22 October 2009 (IRIN Global) - Some 838 students formally offered places and/or enrolled at foreign universities are unable to leave Gaza, according to the Palestinian interior ministry and Gisha, an NGO campaigning for freedom of movement.
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MYANMAR: Rohingya youth face bleak future |  MAUNGDAW, 21 October 2009 (IRIN Asia) - Hla Moe, 25, has a university degree but it is worthless in the eyes of Myanmar's military government. Thus, he and other Rohingya youth have no choice but to till the land just as their ancestors have done for generations in Northern Rakhine State.
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AFGHANISTAN: "Situation is critical and demands urgent action" - NGOs |  KABUL, 15 October 2009 (IRIN Asia) - In a memorandum to Afghanistan's next president, 16 Afghan and international NGOs and civil society organizations have called for urgent improvements in the health, education and human rights sectors.
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