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DEC1-11122025
Taliban shuts five literacy centers for women in Panjshir and dismisses female teachers.
DEC1-11082025
Taliban in Kandahar are sending students with low religious grades to madrassas.
DEC12-10292025
The Taliban forced students at a university to attend a mandatory session about growing beards.
DEC8-10242025
The Taliban arrested a civil and educational activist in Nangarhar over a social media post.
DEC1-10052025-A
Taliban authorities closed women’s literacy schools in Bamyan and dismissed female teachers.
DEC1-10052025-B
Taliban authorities dismissed female literacy teachers in Kabul and Nangarhar and banned Teachers’ Day observances.
DEC10-10042025
Taliban authorities banned Teachers’ Day celebrations and related activities in schools in Herat.
DEC5-10022025
Academic promotion of university professors has been conditioned on having conduct and appearance aligned with Sharia.
DEC2-09022025
The Taliban have reassigned dozens of female teachers to remote areas of Ghor province in an apparent effort to pressure them out of their...
DEC1-08262025-A
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, described the issue of girls’ education as ‘a minor matter' when discussing the Taliban's 5 year national strategy.
DEC1-08262025-B
The Taliban have banned the teaching of 679 books in public and private universities.
DEC1-08252025
The Taliban have removed 18 subjects from university curricula and permitted 201 others to be taught only after mandatory ideological revision.
DEC1-08202025
The Taliban have banned the education of women and girls in religious schools.
DEC3-07202025
A teacher in Paktika was sentenced to death by Taliban courts following a closed trial without legal representation, family access, or due process.
DEC12-07192025-B
Taliban disrupted university graduation ceremony in Faryab, beating and arresting students for wearing neckties and barring professors from attending.
DEC4-06252025
University entrance exam candidates in Mazar-i-Sharif reported that Kankor exam materials were provided only in Pashto, raising concerns of discrimination against Dari-speaking students.
DEC1-05202025
Taliban dismissed dozens of female kindergarten teachers and staff in Kabul through administrative termination lists, removing women from early-childhood education roles.
DEC1-05172025-B
Taliban closed around 200 UNICEF-supported community education centers in Panjshir, affecting approximately 5,000 students and more than 200 teachers.
DEC1-05172025-A
Badakhshan University dismissed 36 university professors and staff members (mainly female) across faculties following a Taliban-directed reduction of positions.
DEC1-05122025
The Taliban have widely initiated the process of dismissing school teachers and professors.
DEC2-05072025
The Taliban Ministry of Higher Education dismissed and reassigned university faculty, citing compliance with Islamic and administrative measures, while appointing Taliban clerics as professors.
DEC5-04142025
Taliban authorities in Paktia ordered teachers and students to comply with strict dress and grooming rules in schools, including trimmed beards and mandatory religious...
DEC1-03222025
UNICEF issued report at start of the new academic year declaring that 400,000 more girls deprived of education in Afghanistan.
DEC1-03102025
The Taliban terminated the employment of six university professors in Badakhshan.
DEC1-03062025
Taliban begins removing former government teachers in Khost.
DEC11-03012025
Taliban intelligence forces re-arrested nine teachers and closed an English language center and its branches in Daikundi Province on accusations of promoting “un-Islamic culture.”
DEC5-02202025
Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada issued a directive mandating turbans for male students and prohibiting tight or thin clothing as part of a national dress...
DEC5-02172025
The Taliban Ministry of Education ordered the enforcement of a national school uniform regulation to all provinces, designating white turbans and caps as the...
DEC3-02122025
The Taliban leader addressed Kandahar University, outlining the ideological role of higher education as subordinate to religious authority and the Islamic Emirate’s system, declaring...
DEC1-01252025
The Taliban closed an educational center in Ghor Province for teaching girls and arrested the teachers.