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MPs in talks with Taiwan to help phase out Confucius Institutes as relations between the countries worsenA group of cross-party MPs is in talks with Taiwan to provide Mandarin teachers to the UK as the government seeks to phase out Chinese state-linked…
Read MoreThe Afghan rulers’ ban on female schooling has provoked global anger, but opposition is also growing from withinThe Taliban official’s wife apologised for keeping her visit brief. She needed to get her teenage girls ready to fly to Doha, the Qatari cap…
Read MoreGirls forced to stop attending school under Taliban are taking huge risks to keep studying – as are the teachers helping themWhen inspectors arrive at the school gate, which is most weeks now, the older girls know the drill. They slip away from their c…
Read MoreMI5 chief says Chinese communist party targeting intellectual property across westFifty Chinese students have left the UK in the past three years after Britain tightened its procedures to prevent the theft of sensitive academic research, the head of MI…
Read MoreMy friend and mentor Dr Natubhai Shah, who has died aged 89, was a GP for almost 30 years before becoming founding CEO of the Jain Network. The aim of the network is to bring awareness of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism to the western world. Jai…
Read MoreJuntendo University medical school made it harder for females to pass entrance examsA medical school in Tokyo that made it harder for female students to pass entrance exams has been ordered to pay compensation to 13 women for gender discrimination.Junt…
Read MoreJoint event had been planned ahead of Doha Forum that would have set process in motion to grant group diplomatic recognitionThe US was poised to set the Taliban on the path to diplomatic recognition before the plan was derailed by the Afghan rulers’ su…
Read MoreMarch is allowed to go ahead, but women also banned from boarding planes aloneWomen and girls staged a protest near the Taliban’s Ministry of Education in Kabul on Saturday, calling on the group to reopen girls’ secondary schools in Afghanistan.The pro…
Read MoreTwo dozen girls and women react to Taliban’s decision to shut secondary schools to girls across AfghanistanWomen and girls staged a protest near the Taliban’s ministry of education in Kabul on Saturday, calling on the group to reopen girls’ secondary s…
Read MoreA lack of teachers and school uniform issues blamed for school closures but confusion is a sign of differences in vision for Afghanistan’s futureEarlier this week, girls across Afghanistan arrived for lessons on the day secondary schools were due to op…
Read MoreHardline rulers bow to pressure from rural tribes after it had been suggested all students would return to schoolThe Taliban have decided against opening schools to girls in Afghanistan beyond secondary school age, an official said Wednesday on the fir…
Read MoreAs female students are denied schooling and career prospects, medical staff warn of a rise in mental health problemsThere was an English exam under way when news began to circulate that the Taliban had reached Kabul. Panic spread and Yamna was among th…
Read MoreMore women qualified for places than men for first time since universities admitted to deliberately failing female applicantsJapanese women have outperformed men in medical school entrance exams for the first time since universities admitted they had d…
Read MoreWomen required to attend separate classes and follow dress code at facilities in Kandahar and Helmand as they restart classes for first time since Taliban takeoverPublic universities in Kandahar and Helmand provinces in Afghanistan have reopened after …
Read MoreFunds will go only to those provinces where girls are in school if Taliban renege on promise, diplomats sayThe west is planning to incentivise the Taliban to abide by their promise to allow girls to be educated by providing funding for teachers’ salari…
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