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Girls Clinch Top Two Slots In BSEK General Group Exams

KARACHI: Female students have grabbed first two positions in the Class XII (Science General Group) annual examinations 2024, according to the results announced by the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) on Tuesday. BIEK Chairman Prof Amir Hussain Qadri said that Maniha Noor Rifat, a student of Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, clinched the first position, securing 998 marks out…

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…

What Are We Teaching At School?

The review of Pakistan’s education system highlights significant challenges in access, quality, and inclusivity, particularly regarding gender disparities. Recent reforms, such as the introduction of religious education for minorities and the Single National Curriculum (SNC), aim to address these issues; however, textbooks largely reflect majoritarian perspectives and offer limited inclusivity…
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Schools In Punjab Mull Early Summer Vacation If Heat Persists

LAHORE: Schools across Punjab have been advised to alter working hours or declare early summer holidays if excessive heat persists. The Punjab Disaster Mana­­gement Authority (PDMA) has issued urgent directives to educational instit­utions and district admi­nistrations across the province in view of heatwave threat, warning of a pote­ntial temperature surge of 4…
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Afternoon School Programme Extended

Ongoing initiative will now be called ‘Afternoon Schools Programme’ RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has decided to maintain and continue the “Insaf Afternoon School Programme” initiated during the tenure of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s Sardar Usman Buzdar as the chief minister. The word “Insaaf” has been removed from the project, and it…
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Peshawar Clamps Down On Exam Cheating

During the operation, authorities recovered over 1,000 pocket guides commonly used for cheating. PESHAWAR: The Peshawar district administration on Monday carried out inspections of stationery and photocopy shops in Hashtnagri, Warsak Road and other areas to curb cheating during the matriculation exams starting today and to ensure transparency in the…
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Hundreds Of Candidates May Miss SSC Exams

Board’s online system crashes, students unable to submit forms HYDERABAD: Annual examinations of Secondary School Certificate (SSC-I and II) are scheduled to begin today (April 7) but hundreds of candidates were unable to submit their examination forms as the board’s online form submission system was down for several days. The…
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Distribution Of Free Textbooks Begins In Sindh Govt Schools

HYDERABAD: On the directive of Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah, over 5 million sets of textbooks are being prepared for the 2025-26 academic year. The Sindh Textbook Board, Jamshoro (STBB) has begun the process of distributing curriculum books for the new academic session. In a statement, the provincial…
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Year After Year, Sindh’s Exam Boards Fail Our Children

No other province in Pakistan suffers this scale of examination mismanagement year after year. As the examination season begins, chaos and confusion once again take center stage – thanks to the staggering incompetence of Sindh’s examination boards. With the first paper set for April 7, thousands of students remain without…
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Sindh Encourages Establishment Of Bookbanks

To make the process more effective, the Sindh Textbook Board has formed several monitoring committees. Karachi/Jamshoro: The Sindh Textbook Board has started the distribution of textbooks for the academic year 2025-26 on the directions of Sindh’s Minister for Education Syed Sardar Ali Shah. He said that the distribution of textbooks…
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Rising Education Costs Burden Families

As new academic year begins parents struggle with skyrocketing fees, uniform costs RAWALPINDI: The new academic year in Punjab is set to begin on April 7, while the results for annual exams from nursery to eighth grade will be announced today, April 4. Significant changes have been made in the…
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