Special Column on Taliban’s Education Curriculum

This is a matter to be catastrophized, and I'm scared to death for every Afghan woman in Afghanistan right now. So I will use the strongest words and I mean them. As someone who graduated high school in a public girls' high school in Afghanistan, I can assure you that our school system was something to be taken seriously. For the most part, in the early 2000s, school meant the mat or plastic…
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The hardline Islamist group Taliban implemented a nationwide ban on university education for women, further restriction on women’s fundamental rights to education and freedom. Since the Taliban seized Afghanistan, they have increased restrictions on all aspects of women's lives, reach to the last deterioration of women's rights in the country. The Taliban’s Minister for Higher Education, Neda…
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The Taliban's Higher Education Ministry issued a statement on Tuesday (December 20th) reflecting the decision of its cabinet, and said that access to all public and private universities for female students will remain suspended till further notice. The Taliban's move has drawn widespread reactions in the national and international arenas. The prominent Turkish novelist and storyteller, Elif…
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Education is the means and training is the object - the philosophy of education systems is to train people better, not to accumulate information. This is a trivial matter, but it has not been understood as it should have in Afghanistan, as the education systems have been unable to fulfill such a mission as effective as possible. Of course, human resource development is not only possible through…
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The former National Security Adviser (NSA) of Afghanistan, in reaction to the report of the Taliban's Education and Higher Education Commission to modify the curriculum, which was published by Hasht-e Subh, says that the Taliban are depleting a society to the level of a "suicide-promoting school" with their curriculum. Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta, who formerly served as NSA to Afghanistan's…
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Since the launch of modern schools in Afghanistan, its curriculum has been stuck between moving toward specialization/modernization, and including the political agenda of the ruling regime. The urge to modernize curriculum which means to include natural science subjects that enable future generations keep up with rest of the world has specially been high and stressed by many. Political use of…
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Author: Hasib Bahesh Hasht-e-Subh has obtained Taliban’s final scheme for the modification of school curricula. The Pashto version along with its Farsi translation has already been published by Hasht-e-Subh. According to this scheme, the process has been finalized in December 2020 by the Taliban’s assessment board for modification of education curriculum. This committee was mandated by the…
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The Taliban have ordered that the 12th-grade exams of female students must be held in one day. All 12th-grade girls are going to appear in the exams today without having preparation as they have only been asked to contact their schools on Monday to register for the exam along with a photograph, ID card, and 600 AFG fees. School teachers describe the move, which leads to the graduation of all…
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This year's Kankur (public university entrance examination) results were full of challenges and a sweet taste of achievements. The fact that tens of thousands of boys and girls in our country still have their eyes on universities. Despite many restrictions, they are preparing for the exam, and getting good grades is promising. The Taliban group is against the educational curriculum, academic…
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The Taliban is constantly promoting the idea that the curriculum and teaching system in Afghanistan's schools and religious schools is outdated and ineffective. Schools are divided into two categories here: religious schools and modern schools. The Taliban has used the phrase "worn out" for the religious school system and the adjective "useless" for the modern school system. So far, the Taliban…
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