KABUL, March 27— Sofia logs in to class on a laptop in Kabul for an online English course run by one of a growing number of educational institutes trying to reach Afghanistan’s...
KABUL, March 27— Sofia logs in to class on a laptop in Kabul for an online English course run by one of a growing number of educational institutes trying to reach Afghanistan’s girls and women digitally in their homes.“Can you hear me?” she asks repeatedly, checking her connection.“As usual,” a fellow student equally frustrated with the poor communications sighs as the class gets going again.
One of the most striking changes since the Taliban were first in power from 1996 to 2001, is the explosion of the internet. The Taliban administration has allowed girls to study individually at home and has not moved to ban the internet, which its officials use to make announcements via social media. “I couldn’t continue,” she said. “It’s too hard to access internet in Afghanistan and sometimes we have half an hour of power in 24 hours.”
Daniel Kalmanson, spokesperson for online University of the People, which has had more than 15,000 applications from Afghan girls and women since the Taliban took over, said students could attend lectures at any time that conditions allowed them to, and professors granted extensions for assignments and exams when students faced connection problems.
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