This is The Guardian.

Today, the students banned from studying in Britain.

I am Shahir Sadat, a software engineer from Afghanistan.

I am 26 years old and I am from Thakhar province.

Ever since she was a teenager, Shahira was obsessed with tech.

Technology is a barrier breaking, so that's why I choose to get my degree in software engineering

and computer science. She was in her final year of a degree in software engineering at Kabul

University when the Taliban took over. That was in the summer of 2021. It was my last year at university.

And the day that Taliban took control of Afghanistan, I was at university's hostel.

And it was really a moment that I can't forget, the moment that I felt that we lost everything,

that we won't be able to continue education

or to finish and complete our degree. At that moment, I was crying, seeing each of my roommates,

and I knew that I won't be able to see them again. So the moment I left the university, I was really hopeless.

Against the odds, Shahirin managed to complete her undergraduate degree and hoped to begin a

master's. But with the Taliban in charge, there was no chance.

So it's very difficult in Afghanistan for Afghan women to study. They cannot continue their education

after the sixth grade of school and universities are closed towards us. So it's very challenging.

It's very difficult to keep ourselves motivated and to continue education.

For the last five years, she has refused to give up her dream.

And last month, after applying to study AI at University College London,

she got an interview for Achieve-enning Scholarship,

a prestigious UK government program which offers fully funded masters to the world's future leaders.

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