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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…

Distribution Of Free Textbooks To Begin In Khyber Next Week

KHYBER: The education department will start the distribution of free textbooks among the students of all government schools from next week in Khyber tribal district with officials conceding an overall deficiency of 30 percent in comparison to their required number of books. Officials said that textbooks were already dispatched to…

Dir School Heads Told To Ensure Success Of Enrolment Drive

LOWER DIR: District education officer Inayatullah Khan has directed school heads to ensure the success of the upcoming enrolment drive by bringing out-of-school children to public sector educational institutions. He was addressing a meeting of headmasters and principals of government middle, high and higher secondary schools at the Balambat Education…

Children’s Creative Talent Celebrated At Competition

KARACHI: The Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED) celebrated the creativity and imagination of young artists from across Pakistan at its A.R. Nagori National Art Competition. Launched on World Children’s Day 2024, the competition provided a platform for children to express their unique interpretations of happiness through art.…

Children With Down Syndrome Can Do Everything; They Just Need Different Strategies

KARACHI: Five-year-old Zainab sits with her mother, having her hand painted on paper. Next to her, a toddler dabbles happily in green paint with his mom. All around, pre-schoolers wearing mismatched socks dance around to the tunes of Cocomelon’s nursery rhymes. Two schools came together at the KDSP — A…

Education Dept Aims To Institutionalise Sindh Children’s Parliament

The secretary of the Sindh School Education and Literacy Department (SE&LD), Zahid Ali Abbasi, has said during an interim review and way forward session that while every stakeholder is engaged in the betterment of education, the children themselves were previously often left out. The introduction of the Children’s Parliament Sindh…

ACs To Inspect Exam Centres To Curb Cheating

Education is a vital sector, and we must take all necessary steps to eliminate cheating from our examination system. PESHAWAR: In a bid to ensure transparency in the upcoming board examinations, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Shahab Ali Shah has directed deputy commissioners to assign all assistant commissioners, instead of tehsildars, to…

Online Tracking Of School Repairs Projects Launched

Education Department hosts conference on flood-hit schools KARACHI: The education department launched a monitoring dashboard, which will enable real-time tracking of school rehabilitation efforts across Sindh. A development conference on the rehabilitation of flood-affected schools in Sindh, organised by the Sindh Education Department, emphasised the need to make school infrastructure…

Special Children Mesmerise Audiences With Spectacular Performances

ISLAMABAD: Breathtaking performances by special children with a particularly heartwarming rendition of the national anthem in sign language and brilliant artwork mesmerised audiences at the National Special Education Centre for Hearing Impaired Children on 20th March. The event titled, “Special Abilities Expo & Spring Plantation Drive”, was organised by the…

Constitutional Bench Told: Punjab Makes Holy Quran Teaching Compulsory In Schools

ISLAMABAD: The federal government and the government of Punjab and Balochistan on 19 March 2025 filed their response in the Supreme Court on the constitutional petition seeking legislation to make the teaching of the Holy Quran compulsory in educational institutions. A five-member constitutional bench, headed by Justice Aminuddin Khan and…

Activists Complain 2.9 Million Girls Out Of School In KP

PESHAWAR: Civil society activists and education advocates have urged the provincial government to prioritise better funding for girls’ secondary education in the upcoming budget. In a news release, the activists demanded better funding to address the issue of out-of-school girls as well as effective implementation of Article 25(A) of the…