A woman sits on the floor of a classroom, nursing her baby while simultaneously taking a high-stakes exam, as dozens of other students around her do the same. A woman sits on the floor of a classroom, ...

Dressed in black hijabs and headscarves, students queue for their entrance exams outside Kabul University - Copyright AFP Wakil KOHSAR Dressed in black hijabs and ...

KABUL, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education ordered private universities in Afghanistan not to allow female students to sit university entrance exams next month, ...

Afghan women are finding avenues to pursue their education as the Taliban continues to crack down on women’s rights, recently banning female students from going to university. Since the Taliban took ...

Afghan women took entrance exams for Kabul University on Wednesday for the first time since the fall of the Taliban, who banned female education. Competition for places at the university was so heavy ...

Resistance is breaking through in clandestine and virtual sessions, created in the country and from exile, where Afghan women ...

Higher education was abolished for Afghan women when the Taliban took over Afghanistan after U.S. troops withdrew in 2021. Nearly 150 students enrolled at Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, who ...

For a group of roughly two dozen displaced Afghan university students, the future feels uncertain. They’ve already uprooted their lives once, fleeing Kabul – where they were studying at the American ...

Thousands of Afghan girls and women sat university entrance exams on Thursday under the guard of Taliban snipers, two weeks after a bomber killed dozens of students preparing for the tests. Since the ...