The Taliban government will allow girls to continue their education beyond the sixth grade next week, when the school year begins in the cold regions.
After months of uncertainty about girls’ education, an official from the Taliban’s education ministry told Reuters on Thursday that the school would be open to all girls.
Aziz Ahmad Ryan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education, said girls would be taught in separate schools from boys and female teachers.
He also said that in some rural areas where the number of female teachers is low, older male teachers would be allowed to teach girls.
Ryan stressed that no school would be closed this year and that if any school was closed, the Ministry of Education would be responsible for reopening it.
One of the demands of the international community from the Taliban was that girls be allowed to study in schools and universities.
After the Taliban regained power on August 15 last year, in all but a few provinces in Afghanistan, girls were allowed to study only up to the sixth grade.
During the last period of their rule, from 1996 to 2001, they did not allow girls to go to school.
