Pakistan's Malala 'excited' after winning place at Oxford University


  • World
  • Thursday, 17 Aug 2017

Malala Yousefzai (L) poses with fellow students Bethany Lucas (C) and Beatrice Kessedjian after collecting her 'A' level exam results at Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham, Britain August 17, 2017. REUTERS/Darren Staples

BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize when she was 17, said on Thursday she was "excited" after winning a place to study at Oxford University.

Yousafzai said she had been accepted at Oxford to study Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. She joined thousands of other students in Britain in discovering where they will go to university after getting their final school results.

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