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The first step of re-opening schools will take place in August, Education Minister G.L. Peiris said.

Given how the pandemic is unfolding globally, in the second wave, it is clear that we are in this for the long haul and there is no easy or quick way out of this.

Bomb exploded near a girls' school in a majority Shiite district of west Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, many of them young pupils between 11 and 15 years old. The Taliban condemned the attack and denied any responsibility.

Children from a number of schools in and around Colombo have been infected with the Coronavirus.

Dhaka, November 13 (Reuters) - Bangladesh is extending its closure of schools and educational institutions which were last open in March until Dec amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus infections during the winter, the education ministry said on Thursday.

Dhaka, November 7 (AFP) - Bangladesh opened its first Islamic school for transgender Muslims on Friday with clerics calling it a first step towards integrating the discriminated minority into society. The madrasa is one of a series of recent moves in Bangladesh to make life easier for the Muslim-majority nation's up to 1.5 million transgender people. The LGBT community faces ...

Kumba, Cameroon, October 25 (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a school in Cameroon on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately, killing at least six children and wounding about eight more in a region where separatist insurgents operate, officials and parents said. Arriving on motorcycles and in civilian clothes, the attackers hit the school around midday in the city of Kumba in South ...

October 23 (DW) - City students in Bangladesh are being able to continue their studies online despite schools being shut, but limited access to technical infrastructure has left the majority of rural children in limbo. Nine-year-old Subarna Akhter Sathi spends most of her days with friends at a local playground in Brahmanbaria, an eastern district of Bangladesh. On regular days, ...

September 8 (The Guardian) - Samita (not her real name) is 17 and lives in the Lamjung district of Nepal. It was never easy, even before coronavirus, for her to attend school full-time. Living in a rural community in a family with little income she was expected to do housework as well. Samita persisted though. At the beginning of the ...

Ulaanbaatar, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Mongolia will keep all its schools shut until March 30 in order to prevent the coronavirus from spreading in the country, the government said on Wednesday. The flu-like virus has already killed more than 2,000 people in its southern neighbor, China. Though Mongolia has yet to report any cases, it has sealed off the border ...