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  • Higher earning Why a university degree is worth more in some countries than others

    AFGHANISTAN, 2016/12/11 A university education may expand your mind. It will as well fatten your wallet. Data from the OECD, a club of rich nations, show that graduates can expect far better lifetime earnings than those without a degree. The size of this premium varies. It is greatest in Ireland, which has a high GDP per chief and rising inequality. Since 2000 the unemployment rate for under-35s has swelled to 8% for those with degrees – but to additional than 20% for those without, and nearly 40% for secondary school drop-outs. The country’s wealth presently goes disproportionately to workers with letters next their names.

  • More enrollment in Malala's part of the world

    PAKISTAN, 2013/10/13 Malala Yousafzai has not won the Nobel Peace Prize. Nonetheless, a number of people attribute the hike in girls' enrollment in schools in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to her struggle. Malala's international admiration has boosted the number of newly enrolled girls in schools in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK), particularly Malakand Division. The Malakand Division includes the districts of Chitral, Lower Dir and Upper Dir, Swat, Buner, Shangla and Malakand. "In less than a month, more than 200,000 children, including 75,000 girls have been enrolled in different schools," KPK education minister Atif Khan told DW. He added that the people living in this area had now understood the importance of education in a nation's progress. Khan called what happened to Malala "upsetting" and hoped it would not repeat itself.

  • Kalam village in Pakistan,

    PAKISTAN, 2013/07/20 The UAE has opened a new preparatory school in Kalam village in Pakistan, the new part of the government’s $7.5m aid to help fund educational projects in the country, the WAM news agency reported. The UAE Project to Assist Pakistan has opened the school in the village of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan and is part of the directives and initiatives ordered by President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The new Haryati School in Kalam village will serve 225 male and female students from primary and preparatory stages. The two-storey building of the school consists of eight class rooms, a computer lab and government facilities.

  • Pakistan's Malala Makes

    PAKISTAN, 2013/07/13  Ms. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for attending school, on Friday addressed hundreds of young people at the UN headquarters in New York, urging them to use education as a weapon against extremism. 'Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One teacher, one book, one pen, can change the world,” Ms. Yousafzai said, in an address to the UN Youth Assembly. The Pakistan schoolgirl, who marked her 16th birthday on Friday, told the gathering that the Taliban attack nine months ago changed nothing in her life.
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