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Automation, E-marking Planned in Sindh’s Education Boards

KARACHI: The Sindh government has decided to introduce automation and an e-marking system in educational boards to improve the quality of education in the province. The announcement was made by the Minister for Universities and Boards Muhammad Ismail Rahoo at a ceremony organised by the All Sindh Private Schools and Colleges Association at Bahria Auditorium, Karsaz, Karachi, to mark World…

Education Boards All Set For E-marking

KARACHI: Preparations are underway in Sindh for the introduction of e-marking in the 2025 annual matriculation and intermediate exams. Both the Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) and the Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) have finalised plans to embrace this digital assessment method, which will be applied to the…

Passing Marks Raised As Federal Board Revises Grading System

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) has increased…

Local Production Of Iron, Folic Acid Supplements May Curb Anaemia In 15m Pakistani Girls

ISLAMABAD: The local production of Weekly Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation (WIFAS)…

Flood Victims Offered Tent Cities Near Homes

LAHORE: Tent cities for flood victims have been set up near homes in the affected areas of Punjab. Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif was informed during a briefing that a tent city has been set up along with a flood relief camp in Athara Hazari tehsil of Jhang district. Officials…

Soaring Fees Force Students To Drop Out

RAWALPINDI: The prices of textbooks from first year to post-graduation have risen drastically as the fees of both government and private colleges also continue to increase. In 2025, the increase in school expenses has set a record in Punjab’s history. Due to crushing inflation, parents are unable to enrol their…

Another Case Surfaces in KP as Polio Drive Kicks Off in Balochistan

ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: As a new polio case was found in Tank district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, taking the total number of cases detected this year to 24, a week-long special anti-polio campaign was launched in 26 of the 36 districts of Balochistan on 1st September amid tight security. The latest polio case involved…

CTP Unveils Traffic Plan For Highways, Schools

RAWALPINDI: The City Traffic (CTP) Rawalpindi has chalked out a plan to maintain traffic flow by deploying additional police personnel on busy highways and outside schools and colleges in view of the resumption of educational activities in the district. According to a spokesperson for the CTP, as part of the…

School Student Dies Of Dengue Fever in Oghi

MANSEHRA: An eleven-year-old boy, a primary school student, succumbed to dengue fever in Oghi tehsil, raising the death toll from the mosquito-borne virus to two. The family of Mohammad Saad told reporters in Oghi that he was shifted to a nearby health facility with dengue symptoms but couldn’t survive, triggering…

Pakistan To Roll Out Landmark Anti-cancer Vaccine Drive From 15th

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is set to launch its first-ever national HPV vaccination campaign from September 15 to 27. This historic initiative aims to prevent cervical cancer—the second most common cancer among women in the country. The campaign will target around 13 million girls, aged 9 to 14, across Punjab, Sindh, Islamabad,…

Schools To Get Fixed Calender

RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has formed a high-powered committee to prepare an academic calendar following the directives from Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench Senior Judge, Justice Jawad Hassan, on Thursday. The judge termed the extension of summer vacations across Punjab as undesirable, saying that the High Court would resolve this…

KP Govt To Outsource 1,500 Primary Schools To Private Organisations

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa elementary and secondary education department has initiated work to outsource 1,500 government primary schools in the province to private organisations over low enrolment and poor academic performance, say officials. They told Dawn that the schools would be outsourced to the private organisations working in the education sector, preferably…

79 School Buildings Declared Hazardous in Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI: As many as 79 buildings of government schools in Rawalpindi district have been declared dangerous. The local administration has asked the District Education Authority to conduct a survey and present a report about remaining school buildings. There are more than 1800 schools in the district and 323 of them…

Rs654 Million Paid To Heirs Of 350 Flood Victims, Says Gandapur

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur said here on 28th August that provincial government paid Rs654 million as compensation to the families of 350 persons, who lost their lives due to recent floods, while pending cases involving minors were being processed through accounts opened by deputy commissioners. In a…