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Girls Dominate Top Spots In Federal Board’s HSSC Exams

ISLAMABAD: Girls made a near-clean sweep by clinching 13 of the top 15 positions in the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) Examinations 2024 conducted by the Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE). According to results declared by the board at a ceremony at Islamabad College for Girls, F-11/3, 16 girls were among the 20 position holders (some of…

Trapped BY Taboos in Pakistan

April is recognised as the Sexual Assault Awareness Month globally. In Pakistan, though, sexual awareness remains a controversial topic and it is often falsely equated with promoting immorality and indecency. In reality, it is to the contrary and sexual awareness plays a pivotal role in preventing sexual violence, which is…

Girls School In Barang Tehsil Non-functional Since 2008

BAJAUR: A government high school for girls in Barang tehsil here is…

Two Years On, Sewage Swamps Plague Girls’ School

NAROWAL: The Government Girls Elementary School at Mardwal village, Shakargarh tehsil, has…

One Million Teachers Required To Meet Growing Needs

Islamabad: Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal called for public sector schools to be equipped with the necessary resources to teach essential skills, ensuring that the proposed reforms deliver broad societal benefits. During a meeting about the Teacher Training Institute, the minister underscored the urgent need for education reforms to…

Three Key Departments Of Education Ministry Without Heads

ISLAMABAD: The appointment of the heads of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) and two other departments of the education ministry has been facing an inordinate delay, badly affecting their work. The FDE, which is a regulatory body of 431 schools and colleges in Islamabad, has been run on an…

Polio Outbreak Worsens As 3 New Cases Take 2024 Tally To 55

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s polio crisis deepens as three more children were confirmed paralyzed by wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1), pushing the total number of cases to 55 this year, Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI) officials said on 23-November-2024. Among the newly affected are an 8-month-old girl from DI Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,…

Sindh Reports Over 43,000 Polio Vaccine Refusal Cases In One Month

• Murad orders action against concerned DCs, SSPs and health officers • Officials say around 69pc of 10.6m children under five in province are fully immunised • Six Sindh districts performed poorly during October campaign, meeting told KARACHI: Over 43,000 cases of vaccine refusal were reported last month in the…

Mothers In Prison

INCARCERATED mothers constitute a rapidly increasing segment of the prison population in Punjab. According to data released by Punjab Prisons, as of last month, the total number of female prisoners stood at 1,218. Of these, 137 are mothers with children and 104 are under trial. The total number of children…

Over 11m Children Under Five Exposed To Toxic Smog in Punjab: Unicef

LAHORE: Impact of this year’s smog will have devastating effects, particularly on children and pregnant women, says Unicef chief, reports Geo News. More than 11 million children under the age of five are exposed to toxic air as Punjab, especially Lahore, has been gripped by severe smog for the past…

Education Boards Introduce New Charges For Matric Exams

New fees, and development charges cause strong backlash from parents RAWALPINDI: Amid a severe financial crisis, the education boards have introduced a “heavy fee bomb” for students taking the 9th and 10th (matriculation) annual examinations in March 2025, causing a strong backlash from parents. The boards have also introduced development…

Children’s Parliament Being Launched In Sindh With Unicef’s Support

With the support of the Reform Support Unit Sindh and Unicef, the Thar Education Alliance is launching a Children’s Parliament to promote educational rights and bring out-of-school children back to school in Sindh. Children from 30 districts of Sindh will participate in this initiative. In the Children’s Parliament, two children…

Schoolchildren Form World’s Largest National Flag In Lahore

LAHORE: Students of different schools on 8th November set a new world record by forming a massive ‘human national flag’ here. According to a press release, over 10,000 students, including those of the Army Public School Lahore, gathered in a ground and set a new world record by participating in…

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…