Ariana: Nearly 60,000 Afghan students are enrolled at Iranian universities and scientific institutions, an Iranian official said, calling for increased international assistance to countries hosting refugees. Nader Yar-Ahmadi, head of Iran’s Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs, gave the figures during the 77th annual session of the UN refugee agency’s Executive Committee in Geneva.
8am: Sources told the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Monday, October 12, that training centers for Taliban members have better learning materials, advanced equipment, dormitories, and stipends, while ordinary students are deprived of these facilities. Meanwhile, sources say the Taliban also discriminate between their fighters and ordinary citizens in government offices in other provinces of Afghanistan.
Ariana: The university has about 980 students, around three-quarters of them women, with about 90 percent based in Afghanistan. All students currently study online. David Edwards, the university’s interim president, said the funding decision threatens one of the few remaining opportunities for Afghan women to pursue higher education from inside Afghanistan. “We are the only
8am: In conversations with the Hasht-e Subh Daily, these students also named ineffective teaching methods, a lack of attention from some teachers to lessons and students, and a shortage of classrooms, laboratories, drinking water, standard toilets, and desks and chairs as other problems facing schools. They also say that in some government boys’ schools, principals
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi September 30, 2026 Fatima keeps attending her classes at Bolan Medical College in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province, but the third-year student from Afghanistan does not know how much longer she’ll be able to continue her studies. “Today I don’t have any problem, but I am always afraid that the government could expel
Ariana: Amnesty International says five years have passed since millions of girls in Afghanistan were deprived of secondary education, warning that the continued restrictions are affecting the future and aspirations of an entire generation. Despite the restrictions, Amnesty said girls across Afghanistan continue to seek ways to pursue their education, including through online learning, protests
Ariana: Amnesty International has condemned the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council’s decision requiring Afghan medical students in Pakistan to return to Afghanistan, calling it discriminatory and arbitrary. The organization said the decision would have particularly severe consequences for female Afghan students, many of whom have already been denied access to higher education in Afghanistan under
8am: Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) has announced that citizens of Afghanistan are prohibited from studying medicine and dentistry at universities in Pakistan until further notice. The council said in an official letter on Thursday, August 13, that the decision was made following the receipt of policy guidelines from the competent senior authorities and
Amu: More than 130 Hazara and Shiite students at universities in Balkh and Herat have been denied access to dormitories over the past week, sources and several students told Amu TV. They said university officials explicitly cited their ethnicity and religious affiliation in rejecting their applications. The accounts from Balkh and Herat raise questions about
The Guardian (UK): Students are required to attend religious lectures and pray in public every day, sometimes for two hours at a time, says Hashmat. The lectures are about Islam, conduct and obedience. They are not optional. In some cases, he says, they are held during time that would otherwise be used for regular academic