The government of King Zahir Shah (ruled 1933–1973) significantly improved Education in Afghanistan, making primary schools available to about half the population who were younger than 12 years of age, and expanding the secondary school system and the national university at Kabul. Despite those improvements, in 1979 some 90 percent of the population remained illiterate. Beginning with the Soviet invasion of 1979, successive wars virtually destroyed the education system. Most teachers fled the country during the Soviet occupation and the subsequent civil war. By the middle of the 1990s, only about 650 schools were functioning. Mohammed Zahir Shah (born October 16, 1914) was the last King of Afghanistan from 1933 to 1973. ... For other places with the same name, see Kabul (disambiguation). ...

In 1996 the Taliban regime banned education for females, and the madrassa (mosque school) became the main source of primary and secondary education. After the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, the interim government received substantial international aid to restore the education system. In 2003 some 7,000 schools were operating in 20 of the 34 provinces, with 27,000 teachers teaching 4.2 million children (including 1.2 million girls). Of that number, about 3.9 million were in primary schools. When Kabul University reopened in 2002, some 24,000 students, male and female, enrolled. Five other universities were being rehabilitated in the early 2000s. Since the end of the dogmatic Taliban era in 2001, public school curricula have included religious subjects, but detailed instruction is left to religious teachers. In 2003 an estimated 57 percent of men and 86 percent of women were illiterate, and the lack of skilled and educated workers was a major economic disadvantage. For the position of women during the Talibans rule, see Taliban treatment of women. ... A Madrasah complex in Gambia Ulugh Beg Madrasa, Samarkand, ca. ... Kabul University is located in Kabul, Afghanistan and was founded 1931, opened 1932 and formally established in 1947. ...

By 2006, over 4 million male and female students were enrolled in schools throughout Afghanistan. At the same time school facilities or institutions were also being improved, with more modern-style schools being built each year.

See also

• Afghanistan

• Kabul University
• American University of Afghanistantis was not fair that we have to go to school and they do notr have to
• List of universities in Afghanistan
• List of schools in Afghanistan
• Help Afghan School Children Organization

Kabul University is located in Kabul, Afghanistan and was founded 1931, opened 1932 and formally established in 1947. ... The American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan, is a new private university. ... This is a list of the thirteen universities in Afghanistan: Kabul: Kabul University The University of Medical Sciences University of Polytechnic University of Pedagogy Other Provinces: University of Nangarhar University of Kandahar University of Balkh University of Hirat University of Bamyan University of Khost University of Kapisa University of Takhar... List of schools in Afghanistan Amani High School, Kabul (aka Amani–Oberrealschule) Sha Shaheed School, a girlss school Habdul Hadi Daway High School Maleka Jalaly High School for Girls, Herat Aischa-i-Durani School (girls high school) Ghulam Haider Khan High School (boys) This list is incomplete; you can... Help Afghan School Children Organization (HASCO) Help Afghan School Children Organization (HASCO) is a Vienna-based non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to the promotion of education of Afghan disadvantaged children. ...

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