Attacks on educational institutions are on the rise and the motives are varied – from undermining the state to stalling educationPakistan attacks: at least 30 dead at Bacha Khan UniversityOver the final 13 months there has been a series of extremely bloody attacks on schools,colleges and universities. On Wednesday Taliban suicide bombers mounted an assault in north-western Pakistan; just over a year ago the same movement attacked a school only 30 miles away,killing 150 people, and most of them children. In April final year 147 were killed in a massacre at a university in northern Kenya by the Somalia-based al-Shabaab.
Then there are hundreds,possibly thousands, of other incidents of violence directed at educational institutions, or teachers or students across the world which believe not been reported.
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Source: theguardian.com