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Madrasahs Go Mainstream: Taliban To Grant University Degrees To Religious Students In New Blow To Secular Education

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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

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The Taliban’s Weaponization of Education

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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

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Taliban Closes Education Ministry Department, Creating Uncertainty For Thousands

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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

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Facing An Uncertain Future, Afghan Girls Finishing Sixth Grade Leave School In Tears

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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

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Another Retrograde Step: Taliban “Purge” University Libraries

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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

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Banning Scholarships: The Taliban Minister Tells Students, ‘You Go as Muslims, Return as Communists’

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8am: The Ministry of Higher Education, under Taliban control, has hindered the travel of around 500 male students to Russia. Scholarship recipients for Russian universities report that they have been accepted at various academic levels, and it has taken about six months for their study visas to be issued. However, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, the acting

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Taliban Continue Their War on Education – School Is in for the Taliban’s New Model Army

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FP: Extremist curriculum is teaching children how to hate, not how to think. School in Afghanistan is mostly Kalashnikovs, suicide bombings, and the Quran. That’s the Taliban recipe for education. While Afghanistan’s ban of women and girls from public life, and especially the classroom, is a big part of the Taliban’s evisceration of freedom since

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