Sidra Haya

Skills and Success

Someweeks ago, the Federal Directorate of Education and Professional Training organised a wonderful summer fiesta for schoolchildren, with a wide range of skill-based workshops, seminars, lectures and activities. This kind of immersive experience with creative writing, financial literacy, digital technology, and so forth, is the urgent need for students who…
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Girl Killed By Brother For Skipping 9th Class Paper

OKARA: A man shot his sister dead as she skipped her 9th-class mathematics paper. As per the first information report, Sadia (16) had taken her 9th class exam conducted by the Sahiwal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education but she skipped the mathematics paper. When the result was announced the…
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STBB Claims Distributing 700,000 Book Sets In Karachi Govt Schools

KARACHI: With approximately 700,000 book sets distributed, the Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) has claimed to have “successfully” completed the delivery of textbooks to government schools in the Karachi region. The move came almost a week after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah directed the education department to ensure the…
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6,500 Nomad Children To Be Vaccinated

BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawalpur district health authorities would launch a vaccination campaign to protect over 6,500 registered nomad children against polio, measles, and other diseases. According to the district health officer (DHO), under a crash programme, the registration of gypsy children has been completed and the vaccinators of the health department…
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300 Microschools Planned To Enroll Out-of-school Children

KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 8 August directed the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) to establish 300 digital ‘microschools’ to enroll 300,000 out-of-school children and hire over 600 female learning facilitators and approved Rs800 million for the purpose. He gave these directives to the SEF while presiding over…
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Man Throws Unwanted Daughter Into Canal

GUJRAT: In a shocking incident of gender-based hate crime, a man allegedly threw his infant daughter into a canal on 8th August for not having a boy. The incident happened at village Chak Fateh Shah of Dinga Police. Rescue 1122 team launched a search for the body of the three-month-old…
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Girls Outsmart Boys As KP Boards Declare Results Of SCC Exam

PESHAWAR: Girls outperformed boys in both science and arts groups in secondary school certificate (SSC) examinations as results were declared by boards of intermediate and secondary education (BISE) on 8th August. Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur distributed prizes among the students, who achieved distinction, at a ceremony held in the…
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Thousands Of Students Miss School In Flood-hit Chitral

CHITRAL: Thousands of students in the flood-hit villages of Chitral Valley are unable to attend their respective schools as the connecting bridges have been washed away by the flash floods. The Yarkhoon valley in Upper Chitral is the worst affected where both the jeepable and the pedestrian bridges connecting the…
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Colleges Told To Admit 20% More Students

SAHIWAL: The Higher Education Department has asked public sector colleges across the province to ensure 20 percent more admissions in intermediate this year. Sahiwal Government College Principal Dr Mumtaz Ahmad confirmed receiving the HED direction. Sources close to the situation say the admission target last year was 600,000 but hardly…
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