INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN-- Three universities have actually expressed readiness to enroll hundreds of Afghan women after the Taliban banned female trainees
from greater education.Female-only centers of Alzahra University of Tehran, Kosar University of Bojnurd, and Hazrat-e Masoumeh University of
Qom will accept Afghan woman trainees, deputy science minister for international affairs Vahid Haddadi-Asl announced.Alzahra University
announced readiness to admit up to 50 students, however the quota will be increased if more dorms become available, he added.Hazrat-e
Masoumeh University of Qom will likewise accept a minimum of 300 Afghan female trainees, both in offline and online courses, according to
The Taliban-run higher education ministry has revealed that female students would not be enabled access to the countrys universities up
until further notification
You all are informed to instantly carry out the discussed order of suspending the education of women up until more notice, stated a letter
released to all federal government and private universities, signed by the Minister for Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem.Iran is home
to over 800,000 signed up refugees and some 2.6 million undocumented Afghans
Today, more than 500,000 Afghan children- including undocumented Afghans and those who have actually newly gotten here in Iran following the
Taliban-takeover-are benefitting from Irans inclusive education policies, among the most progressive in the world.Many of the refugees
living in Iran are 2nd and third-generation, according to the UNHCR.Some 108,000 students from 117 nations have actually registered in
Iranian universities for the present academic year (started September 23), Mohammad Mohammadi Masoudi, an official with the Ministry of
Science, has said.Twenty-five percent of the foreign students studying in Iranian universities are Afghan nationals, he added.The students
are studying in different fields of science, research and innovation, health and medical education, and likewise in the fields of liberal
arts, Islamic sciences, Persian language and literature, law, basics of Islamic law, management fields, economics, psychology, social
sciences, along with engineering, farming sciences, animal sciences, and standard sciences.In the present academic year which began on
September 23, about 300,000 new foreign students registered in Iranian schools.For the time being, 560,000 foreign trainees are studying in
schools throughout the nation, Education Minister Yousef Nouri said.FB/ MG
