Sara Wahedi, an Afghan tech entrepreneur from Canada, has passed her Oxford University law exams with a distinction.

The Taliban-run Ministry of Higher Education ordered private universities in Afghanistan not to allow female students to sit university entrance exams next month, underscoring its policy to ...

I lost hope again, but decided to apply for the visa with the short-validity pass-port. Cutting a long story short, I did cross the passport hurdle, and my father accompanied me to Peshawar. He was ...

Four Afghan women are piloting the University of New Haven program, which will grow to include a full cohort of 42 next semester.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Afghan Women’s Scholars program will provide full financial support to 14 Afghan women — 10 undergraduates and four graduate students — throughout their university careers.

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 ...

Now Saieda was on the university’s leafy campus in Newark, trying to put down roots. Stopping at the tree became a sort of daily meditation. Although others didn’t linger, she liked to imagine ...

Ahmad is co-founder of the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh which offers full scholarships to women whose countries restrict higher education.

The University of New Haven announced its upcoming Afghan Women's Scholars program, which will promote the education of 14 Afghan women, funded by a gift from a Danish web entrepreneur.