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BBC launched education show for Afghan children barred from school

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Kabul: The BBC has launched a new education programme for children in Afghanistan who are banned from school.

It is aimed at children aged 11 to 16, including girls whose secondary education has been stopped by the ruling authorities.

The weekly programme is called Dars, which means lesson in Dari and Pashto, languages.

It is hosted by BBC Afghan female journalists who were evacuated from Kabul during the 2021.

Each new weekly half-hour episode of Dars will air four times a day, Saturday to Friday, on the newly launched BBC News Afghanistan channel.

The programme will also be available via BBC News Pashto and BBC News Dari Facebook channels, will be part of the BBC Persian TV channel schedule, and will air on radio through the network of BBC FM transmitters in Afghanistan as well as on short-wave and medium-wave radio.

The BBC show is tailored to children aged between 11 and 16 and makes the most of the BBC’s existing teaching content, adapting maths, history, science, and Information and Communications Technology modules from BBC Bitesize, the BBC’s free online resource for pupils in the UK.

The ruling authorities have said that schools for girls are temporarily closed until a “suitable environment” is created.

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