Enhancing access to education : challenges and opportunities in Afghanistan / Barnett Rubin and Clancy Rudeforth.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : Center on Cooperation International, 2016.Description: 27 pages ; 30 cmSubject(s): LOC classification:
  • Pamphlet LA1081. R835 2016
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Contents: Enhancing access to education : challenges and opportunities in Afghanistan—Preface—Acknowledgements—Disclaimer—Executive summary—Part 1 : introduction—Part 2 : past Taliban policy and practice toward education—Part 3 : current Taliban policy and practice toward education—Part 4 : interventions—Part 5 : education and political settlement—Part 6 : recommendations—Appendix : Afghanistan’s education statistics—Endnotes.
Summary: Summary: “While in power, the Afghan Taliban closed girls’ schools and restricted other forms of non-religious education. Today, that same movement has issued policies supporting education as a “basic human need,” including for girls “within the scope of Sharia and Afghan traditions.” The Taliban now sometimes prefer to control schools rather than to close them, at least partly in response to the massive demand for education that has developed in Afghanistan over decades of war. However…”—(page 6).
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Contents: Enhancing access to education : challenges and opportunities in Afghanistan—Preface—Acknowledgements—Disclaimer—Executive summary—Part 1 : introduction—Part 2 : past Taliban policy and practice toward education—Part 3 : current Taliban policy and practice toward education—Part 4 : interventions—Part 5 : education and political settlement—Part 6 : recommendations—Appendix : Afghanistan’s education statistics—Endnotes.

Summary: “While in power, the Afghan Taliban closed girls’ schools and restricted other forms of non-religious education. Today, that same movement has issued policies supporting education as a “basic human need,” including for girls “within the scope of Sharia and Afghan traditions.” The Taliban now sometimes prefer to control schools rather than to close them, at least partly in response to the massive demand for education that has developed in Afghanistan over decades of war. However…”—(page 6).

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