Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Prize-winning activist who narrowly avoided death after being shot by the Taliban, has gained a place to study at the University of Oxford. The 20-year-old revealed she has been accepted to study philosophy, politics and economics at the prestigious institution.
Yousafzai was shot at pointblank range by a gunman in Pakistan in 2012 after speaking out to defend the right of girls to attend school. After being treated at a hospital in Birmingham she continued her education in the city and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014. The story gained international recognition and she has since become a global advocate for female education.
In March, Ms. Yousafzai received a conditional offer from Oxford’s Lady Margaret Hall, contingent on her exam results. Pakistan’s first female prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, also studied at Lady Margaret Hall in the 1970s.
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