Asia Pacific
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India: Kashmir: On the Way Back?
Kashmir/New Delhi | In May of this year, four Kashmiri candidates passed India’s prestigious civil service examination. But what sparked celebration all across the region was the rare feat achieved […]
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Sri Lanka: Pressure Starts Young
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka | Shamindra Jayasinghe is a grade four student at Subharathi Junior School in Godagama, near the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Last year, he came home from school, […]
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Nepal: On the Threshold of Change
Kathmandu | This spring around 350,000 boys and girls are on the threshold of clearing what Nepalese call the “Iron Gate” – graduating from high school. That’s a 10 percent […]
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Afghanistan: Education in a War Zone
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan | Seven-year-old Maryam’s mother found a black stain on her shirt one day after school. Though the little girl initially denied that anything had happened to her, she […]
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