{"id":23294,"date":"2026-10-05T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/05\/afghanistan-kankor-exam-registration-1406-girls-barred\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T15:33:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T15:33:15","slug":"afghanistan-kankor-exam-registration-1406-girls-barred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/05\/afghanistan-kankor-exam-registration-1406-girls-barred\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Opens 1406 University Entrance Exam Registration as Girls Remain Barred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s National Examination Authority, under Taliban administration, has announced that registration has begun for students to take the 1406 general Kankor exam and the religious schools Kankor exam, while girls remain barred from taking the test this year as well.<\/p>\n<p>According to the authority\u2019s spokesman, applicants can register for the exam from the start of registration until 30 Qaws of the current year.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesman called on applicants to complete their registration within the set deadline and prepare to take the Kankor.<\/p>\n<p>The Kankor exam in Afghanistan is the main route for entry into universities and some higher education institutions. However, Taliban restrictions on girls\u2019 education and schooling have meant that girls have again been denied access to this educational pathway for a consecutive year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan has opened Kankor exam registration for 1406, but girls remain barred from the university entrance test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}