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Education in Afghanistan includes K–12 and higher education, [1] which is under the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education. [2] In 2021, there were nearly 10 million students and 220,000 teachers in Afghanistan. [3][4] The nation still requires more schools and teachers. [5][6][7] Soon after the Taliban take took the country ...
The Taliban have deliberately deprived 1.4 million Afghan girls of schooling through bans, a United Nations agency said Thursday. Afghanistan is the only country in the world that bans female ...
According to the National Higher Education Strategic Plan: 2010 – 2014, higher education was to represent 20% of the country's educational budget by 2015. That is equivalent to US$800 per student by 2014 and US$1,000 by 2015. The approved budget for 2012 for higher education was US$47.1 million, equivalent to US$471 per student.
The Afghan Ministry of Education (Persian: وزارت معارف افغانستان) (Pashto: د پوهني وزارت افغانستان) is responsible for policy formulation, the organization, and supervision of education in Afghanistan. [3] Its headquarters is located in Kabul. The current Education Minister is Rangina Hamidi.
The U.N. children's agency said on Thursday it was following up with Afghanistan's Taliban authorities over whether international organisations would be excluded from education projects, which ...
Rangina Hamidi (Pashto: رنګینه حمیدي; born 1978) is an Afghan-American writer, educator, social activist, and politician. [1] She is well known as an advocate for women's rights in Afghanistan and has engaged in various social projects to empower girls and women in Afghanistan. Hamidi has served as an education minister of ...
LEARN Afghanistan resumed operations, although covertly, within a month of the takeover. [4] In 2021, Durrani was named as one of BBC's 100 Women. In 2022, she was a Young Activist Summit winner. [5] In 2023, Durrani was given a Global Citizen Prize for her work. [6] She has also been named a Global Education Champion by the Malala Fund. [6]
The number of students in higher education had increased across the country from 22,717 in 2002 to 56,451 in 2008. By 2008, Kabul University was attended by 9,660 students, 2,336 (24%) of them being women.