Akmal Dawi VOA News May 28, 2024 In coming weeks, tens of thousands of students in Afghanistan are set to sit for university entrance examinations. Notably absent from the list of candidates will be females. The upcoming exams are expected to determine the admission of about 70,000 students to public academic and professional institutions this
Ariana: Officials from private schools say banning education of girls above the sixth grade has resulted in serious financial problems for these schools. According to them, with the ban on education for girls above the sixth grade, not only schools but also teachers and the transportation cycle have suffered economic problems. Click here to read
8am: In recent months, the Taliban have tested thousands of unfamiliar mullahs in the alphabet of academia and awarded them academic credentials and titles. This demonstrates their ineffectiveness in acquiring madrasa titles and designations and the absurdity of placing someone with titles like mullah, mufti, or hadith scholar on the throne of an academic institution.
Akmal Dawi VOA News March 14, 2024 An Afghan education official says Taliban authorities may permanently close girls’ secondary schools, promoting religious schools known as madrasas as an alternative. The Taliban shut down girls’ secondary schools in 2022, citing “religious and cultural” concerns. Taliban officials defend the ban, insisting they are working to create a
8am: Some owners of private educational centers in Ghazni province assert that these centers teeter on the brink of collapse. They stress that stringent Taliban restrictions on women and girls have plunged these centers into severe economic hardship. According to them, the centers currently struggle to meet daily expenses, warning of imminent closure if swift
RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi Abubakar Siddique January 25, 2024 Since seizing power, the Taliban has appointed its foot soldiers, commanders, and leaders as ministers and the heads of state-run institutions in Afghanistan, including universities and hospitals. The decision has triggered widespread criticism among Afghans, who have accused the Taliban of hiring unqualified and uneducated fighters and
Ms. Magazine: In Afghanistan, the term ‘madrassa’ refers to religious schools. Historically they focus on religious studies, including the Quran and Islamic law. Since the Taliban’s return, madrassas have focused heavily on promoting religious education. Currently, the Taliban is planning a vast network of madrassas across the country’s 34 provinces; some are reporting that they
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 27, 2023 The Taliban’s hard-line Islamist government in Afghanistan has eliminated the Monitoring and Evaluation Department in the Education Ministry, a move that threatens the jobs of more than 5,000 people in Kabul and across the country and further erodes secular education in Afghanistan. The department was tasked with monitoring the
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 8, 2023 Hundreds of thousands of sixth-grade girls in Afghanistan attended the last day of the school year, many with tears in their eyes as they face an uncertain future because of Taliban policies that forbid them from further schooling and restrict their basic human rights. “These last few days of our
8am: The Ministry of Higher Education, under Taliban control, has instructed all universities in the country to purge their libraries of books from the republic era and replace them with the book “Seerat”, or the prophetic biography. A copy of the ministry’s letter has been made available to the Hasht-e Subh Daily, revealing that the