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state of education in Pakistan

Grace Marks by Sindh Government

In a move as surprising as it is contentious, the Sindh provincial government has decreed a generous 15% grace mark for students who faltered in their class XI examinations last year. The decision, prompted by an investigative committee report on the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi’s controversial results, comes as a beacon of hope for the academically flailing youth of…

Three school education depts merged into one authority

LAHORE: The Punjab government on 14 June 2024 established the Punjab Education, Curriculum, Training and Assessments Authority (PECTAA) after merger of three departments -Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB), Quaid-i Azam Academy for Educational Development (QAED) and Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) with a view to reform school education. Earlier, the…

Girls Clinch Top Two Slots In BSEK General Group Exams

KARACHI: Female students have grabbed first two positions in the Class XII…

Sindh Adopts New Grading System For Matric, Inter Exams

KARACHI: The Sindh government has formally adopted a new grading system for…

Boy Tortured To Death By Teachers In Swat Madrassa

MINGORA: A 14-year-old boy was allegedly tortured to death by three teachers at an unregistered madrasa in Chaliyar area of Khwazakhela tehsil in Swat district. It was learnt that the young student identified as Farhan Ayaz was subjected to severe physical abuse allegedly for absenteeism. The beating, carried out by…

Schools To Be Upgraded With Rs937m, Within 90 Days

Rawalpindi: District Education Officer (Secondary Education) Dr. Gul Ahmad has said that, under the revolutionary educational initiatives of CM Maryam Nawaz, the upgradation of all schools in Rawalpindi district will be completed before the 90-day deadline with an allocation of Rs937.0 million. Renovation, new furniture, clean drinking water, and state-of-the-art…

CM Punjab Directs Launch Of School on Wheels

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has directed to start “School on Wheels”, “Library on Wheels” and “Mobile Library” projects to promote education in Punjab. “If you study, you will grow,” said Maryam Nawaz while directing the authorities concerned to start “School on Wheels”, “Library on Wheels” and “Mobile Library”…

Teachers Reluctant To Take Management Posts

3,795 apply for over 5k vacancies of headmasters, headmistresses LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department is facing an administrative challenge as government schoolteachers are showing little interest in taking up the role of headmaster and headmistress. According to official sources, only 3,795 teachers have applied against 5,051 vacant positions to…

Education Divide

THE adage ‘desperate times call for desperate measures’ seems apt for the state of Pakistan’s worsening rural-urban education divide. In a country where the education budget is lower than the minimum global standard of 4 per cent of GDP, where 23 million children remain out of school and where the…

BSEK Puts Off Automated Paper Checking

Matric board in search of cost effective software for checking papers KARACHI: The results of the 2025 annual matric examinations will be declared by July 31, said the chairman of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK), Ghulam Hussain Soho, on Friday. However, he added that in case of any…

Chinese Envoy Announces Support For School Children

LAHORE: Chinese Consul General Zhao Shiren on 17th July announced the sponsorship of uniform, shoes, school bags and stationery for 1,300 newly enrolled children in south Punjab. He was addressing the ‘Zero Out-of-School Children’ campaign as the chief guest in Multan. The event began with a guard of honour by…

Girls Clinch Top Positions In SSC Federal Exams

Islamabad: The Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) declared the results for Secondary School Certificate (Part I & II) 2025 annual exams on 16-July-2025, recording an overall pass percentage of 88.51. Notably, no student from public schools and colleges regulated by the Federal Directorate of Education featured among…

Literary Event Held For Marginalised Children

ISLAMABAD: A storytelling and literary event was held for marginalised children at Mashal Model School in Bari Imam. The students presented dramatic renditions of Zeenat Iqbal Hakimjee’s acclaimed short stories, such as ‘From Bad to Good’ and ‘The Honest Taxi Driver’. Despite limited resources, using carts as props, lacking proper…

10m Kids In Punjab Out Of School

One-third children drop out of primary education: UNICEF report LAHORE. Punjab accounts for 10 million of the estimated 26 million out of school children in the country, according to a UNICEF report. The report released recently stated that Pakistan had one of the world’s highest ratios of out-of-school children. Thousands…