A letter from the higher education minister has noted that , the Taliban have announced that women’s universities in Afghanistan will close.
The change, according to the minister, is temporary. Immediate implementation is anticipated.
Given that they are already prohibited from attending secondary school, it further restricts women’s access to formal education.
Numerous women and girls took entrance exams for universities across Afghanistan three months ago.
But sweeping restrictions were imposed on the subjects they could study, with veterinary science, engineering, economics and agriculture off limits and journalism severely restricted.
After the Taliban takeover last year, universities included gender segregated classrooms and entrances.
Female students could only be taught by women professors or old men.
In November, the authorities banned women from parks in the capital Kabul, claiming Islamic laws were not being followed there.
Source: BBC.com