Some Afghan women returned to main colleges with gender-segregated courses on Saturday (Sep 18), however older women confronted an anxious wait with no readability over if and after they would be capable of resume their research on the secondary faculty stage.
Most colleges within the capital Kabul have stayed shut because the Taliban captured town simply over a month in the past.
Taliban officers say they won’t return to the fundamentalist insurance policies – together with a ban on women receiving an schooling – after they final dominated Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.
They’ve now promised that women will be capable of research – however solely in segregated school rooms.
Nazife, a trainer at a non-public faculty in Kabul which had combined school rooms earlier than the Taliban takeover, mentioned that they had made adjustments so as to reopen.
“Women research within the morning and boys within the afternoon,” she mentioned. “Male lecturers educate boys and feminine lecturers educate women.”
Nonetheless, there was uncertainty for a lot of different women on the faculty, which teaches at each main and secondary stage.
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