Taliban announce closure of universities for women in Afghanistan. This is reported by the BBC with reference to a letter from the Minister of Higher Education..

According to the official, this order takes effect immediately and will remain in effect until a separate order is issued..

Such a move further restricts women's access to formal education, as they have already been excluded from most secondary schools..

Three months ago, thousands of girls and women took university entrance exams across Afghanistan.. But significant restrictions were placed on the subjects they could study: veterinary medicine, engineering, economics, and agriculture were banned, and journalism was severely restricted..

Universities introduced gender-segregated classrooms and entrances after the Taliban took over the country last year.

Only female professors or older people could post to female students.

Afghanistan's education sector has been hit hard by the Taliban takeover, and there has been an exodus of professional educators and academics since the US withdrawal last year..

The Afghan economy has relied heavily on foreign aid in recent decades, but after the Taliban refused to let girls into secondary schools, aid agencies partially, and in some cases completely, stopped supporting the education sector..

Many teachers who stayed in the country do not receive salaries for months.

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Such moves by the country's leadership may cause international concern, as the US and other Western countries have placed the improvement of women's education in Afghanistan as a precondition for official recognition of the Taliban government..

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