Malala Yousafzai: ‘The west is viewed as an ideal, but there’s still a lot of work to be done’

For most students, essay deadlines are stressful enough – but the Nobel prizewinner, who is studying at Oxford, has continued to campaign for gender equality alongside her courseworkNot many first-year university students have to juggle late-night essay crises with the pressures of addressing delegates at Davos. For Malala Yousafzai, the hardest thing about starting at Oxford has been working out how much time to spend campaigning for girls’ education globally and how much to devote to her own education.As everyone around her seems to be in a permanent state of alarm about the amount of work they must do, her own battle to squeeze everything in feels bearable. “Sometimes, it is challenging. You have to stay awake until late and finish your work; you have to ask to extend your deadline; you have to work a bit harder,” she says in a phone call between classes. “Everyone struggles. Everyone is panicking with their reading. It is hard to do all the reading and finish a 2,000-word essay – it is normal for everyone to struggle.” Continue reading…
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