https://www.thenationalnews.com/wor...-to-keep-studying-after-secondary-school-ban/
Afghan girls and young women are enrolling at madrassas in an effort to continue their education, after the Taliban banned them from attending secondary school.
But experts say these religious schools, while important, cannot compensate for loss of access to secondary education.
A report this year by UN education agency Unesco said that 2.5 million Afghan girls and young women are not in the education system – 80 per cent of the age group.
This includes 1.2 million denied access to secondary schools and universities by the Taliban, after the militant group seized power in August 2021. Women aged over 20 were added to the university ban at the end of 2022.
To keep learning, Afghan girls are looking to religious schools, where the Taliban allows girls above Grade 6 – aged 11 to12 – to study.
“I joined this madrassa a month ago. It’s close to my house,” Munira, 16, a student in Kabul, told The National.
“I am happy to be able to learn reading Quran and some religious topics. But I wanted to become a doctor.”…
Afghan girls and young women are enrolling at madrassas in an effort to continue their education, after the Taliban banned them from attending secondary school.
But experts say these religious schools, while important, cannot compensate for loss of access to secondary education.
A report this year by UN education agency Unesco said that 2.5 million Afghan girls and young women are not in the education system – 80 per cent of the age group.
This includes 1.2 million denied access to secondary schools and universities by the Taliban, after the militant group seized power in August 2021. Women aged over 20 were added to the university ban at the end of 2022.
To keep learning, Afghan girls are looking to religious schools, where the Taliban allows girls above Grade 6 – aged 11 to12 – to study.
“I joined this madrassa a month ago. It’s close to my house,” Munira, 16, a student in Kabul, told The National.
“I am happy to be able to learn reading Quran and some religious topics. But I wanted to become a doctor.”…