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Annual Status of Education Pakistan 2023 – Provisional

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a survey of the quality of education. ASER seeks to identify gaps in educational data by looking to provide a reliable set of data at the national level, that is comprehensive and, at the same time, easy to understand. This year, ASER Rural Survey was conducted in 151 districts across Pakistan between…

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The Impact of Pakistan’s Education System

What PM Shehbaz Sharif blurted out recently isn’t quite a national secret. Though none in high office can admit it publicly, in a moment of despair he admitted that wherever he visits, disdain is written on the faces of hosts. Respecting those who keep asking for loans and rollovers is…

Three school education depts merged into one authority

LAHORE: The Punjab government on 14 June 2024 established the Punjab Education,…

Grace Marks by Sindh Government

In a move as surprising as it is contentious, the Sindh provincial…

Govt To Recruit 16,000 Teachers, Says CM

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur said on 4th November that his government would soon initiate the process to recruit 16,000 teachers in the elementary and secondary education sector to meet teachers’ shortage. He said ‘complete transparency and merit’ would be ensured in the recruitment process. He…

Bara Girls College Students Seek Furniture In Classrooms

KHYBER: Most of the students of the Government Degree College for Girls, Bara, are forced to sit on the floor to take classes owing to non-availability of furniture. Established in December 2022 under the Accelerated Implementation Programme (AIP), with the main building almost 90 percent complete, the lone girls’ college…

Over 5,000 Community School Teachers Without Salary For Eight Months

PESHAWAR: Although Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has failed to pay salaries to 5,238 teachers of girls’ community schools during the last eight months. The non-payment of salaries to non-formal schools for girls functioning in far-off areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has endangered the future of 276,000 students enrolled in such institutions. These schools…

Schools Shut As Smog Chokes Lahore’s Lungs

Half of staff in offices to work from home; entry of heavy vehicles banned LAHORE: Authorities in Lahore announced on November 3 the closure of schools in the provincial capital for a week, reduced staff strength in government and private offices, and banned the entry of heavy vehicles within the…

Number of Out-of-school Down Only 1pc in 10 Years: Unesco

ISLAMABAD: A new Unesco report reveals that the global out-of-school population has decreased by only one percent over the past decade, citing chronic under-investment in education, especially in low- and lower-middle-income countries, as a key contributing factor. The UN agency’s ‘Global Education Report 2024’ says the public education expenditure globally…

Tutor Rapes Minor Boy In Lodhran

BAHAWALPUR: A tutor allegedly raped his 13-year-old student at Basti Baghwala of village Khanpur Ghalwan in the limits of the Qureshiwala Police Station in district Lodhran. According to Ladhran police spokesperson Bahadur Khan, the tutor called his student from his house and took him to nearby fields on the pretext…

Blast Near Police Van on Security Duty Of Polio Team Kills 9 in Mastung

QUETTA: A bomb blast near a girls’ high school in Mastung, Balochistan, claimed the lives of nine people, including six schoolchildren, a police officer, and two passers-by. Thirty others were injured. The explosive device, planted on a motorcycle, exploded with great force, damaging several cars. Following the blast, eleven of…

AJK to Launch New Education Policy In Collaboration with Unicef

MUZAFFARABAD: Designed to foster the growth of the younger generation and address future challenges, Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s (AJK) Education Policy 2024-2040 will soon be launched in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). This was announced by Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education Deevan Ali Khan Chughtai at…

Mastung Bombing

INSTABILITY continues to haunt Balochistan, as Friday morning’s bombing in Mastung has shown. At least nine fatalities have been confirmed — mostly children — while at the time of writing no group had claimed responsibility for this atrocity. Considering Balochistan’s complex vortex of violence, both separatist militants or religiously inspired…

Parents Opt For Tent Schools Over Privatised Education

Residents have set up a temporary school with volunteer teachers RAWALPINDI: Families in Sumbul Syedan village, Murree, have withdrawn their daughters from schools recently handed over to NGOs, opting instead to educate them in makeshift tent schools. Unhappy with the former Government Primary Girls School’s privatisation, residents set up a…