KABUL: Afghanistan's Taliban government has invited professors who fled the country following the fall of the previous administration in August last year to return home and start teaching.

According to Khaama Press, the Ministry of Higher Education has committed to give professors with the same financial and working conditions that they had before the Taliban took control of the country.

"A country's development is entirely based on its educational system," the statement read. "As a result, the Ministry of Higher Education of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan strongly encourages all teachers of public colleges to return to Afghanistan."

Other Afghan specialists and academics in exile have also been requested by the Ministry to return to Afghanistan and fill vacant teaching positions in universities. According to a BBC report published earlier this month, 229 professors from Afghanistan's top three universities have left the country.

Professors from Kabul University, Herat University, and Balkh University were in attendance. The majority of the professors who left had Masters or Ph.D. degrees. Public universities in tropical provinces have reopened, with non-tropical provinces set to open by the end of March.

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