BREAKING: Taliban set higher education policy, say women can study in universities, in gender-segregated classrooms.
The minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, laid out the new policies at a news conference, several days after Afghanistan’s new rulers formed an all-male government. On Saturday, the Taliban had raised their flag over the presidential palace, signaling the start of the work of the new government.
Haqqani said the Taliban did not want to turn the clock back 20 years. “We will start building on what exists today,” he said. Haqqani said the subjects being taught would also be reviewed. While he did not elaborate, he said he wanted graduates of Afghanistan’s universities to be competitive with university graduates in the region and the rest of the world.
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