An Afghan education official says Taliban authorities may permanently close girls' secondary schools, promoting religious schools known as madrasas as an alternative. The Taliban shut down girls ...

The absence of teenage girls in classrooms, while their male peers returned, followed a decree issued by the Taliban on Friday ordering male students and teachers to return to high schools and ...

Archive List > Books > Wartime memories of Preston near Hitchin by Rebecca Cook Wartime ... We shared with the Eastbourne High School at the Girls Grammar School. So even when I started we used ...

Boys started secondary school on Saturday without their female classmates. A decree issued Friday by the Taliban called on boys to resume their classes but made no mention of girls. The Taliban ...

It shows of the 12 institutions in Central Bedfordshire where data was available, Hitchin Girls' School had the best results, with an average score of 37.54 – equivalent to a B- grade.

But two days before traveling to Afghanistan, the group was informed that the Taliban, contrary to earlier assurances, had unexpectedly extended their ban on secondary schools for girls.