Afghan female students walk near Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 21, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab ...

Female students have been missing from Afghan university entrance exams for the third consecutive year due to the prohibition of female secondary education.

She was almost done, with just two tests left, when she heard the news: the Taliban government was suspending university education for all female students in Afghanistan. CNN values your feedback 1.

An Afghan teenager who was severely injured in a suicide attack in September has passed her university entrance exams with high marks. Fatemeh Amiri, 17, lost an eye and sustained severe damage to ...

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.

The exam ran from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. local time, Kabul's girl student Shiwa said. "Without any preparations, I attended the graduation exam in a school in Darul Aman locality.

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 ...

Nineteen talented Afghan women, whose university education was cut short by the Taliban, now have a chance to fulfill their dreams in Scotland. They’re all aiming to be doctors and have been ...

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

KABUL - 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 ...

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 ...