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School Principal Arrested For Alleged Abuse Of Teachers, Students

SHEIKHUPURA: A school principal has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing several teachers and students in the Mirza Virkan area of Sheikhupura, reported Ary News. The case came to light after videos of the victims went viral on social media and WhatsApp groups. Following the emergence of the videos, the B-division station police conducted a raid on complaints of…

Transport For Schooling

A JUDGE at the Lahore High Court recently ordered that schools should arrange for and organise transport for schoolchildren by the end of the winter break. The order came in the hearings on the case about smog in Lahore. The use of public transport for schooling is expected to reduce vehicular traffic…

PAKISTAN EDUCATION STATISTICS 2022 – 2023

Pakistan’s education system spans multiple levels, including compulsory education for children aged…

Closure of 86 Schools Extended In Flood-hit Areas Of Chiniot

CHINIOT: The administration has extended the closure of 86 schools for three…

KP Schools Closed Aug 19–25 Due To Flash Floods

All government and private schools in the cold, mountainous regions of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) have been closed for a week after cloudbursts, heavy rains, and flash floods caused significant loss of life and property across the province, with 341 people killed so far, officials said on Monday. Education Minister Faisal Khan Tarakai…

Non-Muslim Students To Get Grace Marks Due To missing Textbook

SAHIWAL: Sixty non-Muslims twelfth grade students appearing in the subject of Civics of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), Sahiwal, will get marks as per their previous class score due to the unavailability of the prescribed textbook in the market. The decision in this regard was made during…

School Principal Held For Molesting Minor Girl Student

LAHORE: The Hanjarwal police arrested a school principal for allegedly sexually harassing a Class IV minor female student. The minor girl’s mother, in her complaint to the police alleged that the suspect, was involved in immoral activities and had been sexually harassing her 11-year-old daughter, a Class IV student at…

PHC Seeks BISE Response To Plea Of Visually Impaired Student

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court on 13th August issued a notice to the Peshawar Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE), seeking its response to the petition of a visually impaired female student, who claimed that she was deprived of third position in the recently announced results of secondary school…

Parent-teacher Bond

TEACHERS and parents are both scrambling to prepare for yet another demanding academic year ahead. However, with the exception of the odd parent orientation at school, they are not engaging in any deep conversations about the students. Most students have not only been out of touch with subject knowledge, they…

School blown up in South Waziristan

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Terrorists blew up a government high school building in Birmal tehsil of Lower South Waziristan early on 10th August, the police said. Birmal circle DSP Asghar Ali Shah told Dawn on phone that terrorists planted explosives along the school’s boundary wall as well as inside the premises before fleeing the…

A Mirror To The Nation’s Young

The State of Children in Pakistan 2024 report was prepared by and launched on April 30 this year by the National Commission on the Rights of Child (NCRC). Established by the Federal Government on February 28, 2020 as an independent statutory body, the NCRC has the overarching mandate for the…

Rising Costs Shut Out Marginalised Students

RAWALPINDI. Access to higher education shrinks amidst soaring merit thresholds Thousands of students across the Rawalpindi Division have been denied admission to leading government colleges despite having passed their matriculation examinations with first, second, or third division, due to increasingly high merit thresholds. At the same time, the cost of…

Punjab School Vacations Extended

LAHORE: The Punjab government has extended the school summer vacations in the province because of an ongoing heatwave and health concerns for students. Punjab Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat announced that the schools will now reopen on September 1 instead of mid-August, as previously scheduled. “In view of the extreme…

Changes To Seminary Law May Open New Can Of Worms

ISLAMABAD: Although the government managed to secure parliamentary approval for an ordinance promulgated to satisfy Maulana Fazlur Rehman and a group of seminary boards, their registration may be hampered by the fact that the law only applies to the capital territory. During Wednesday’s proceedings, the National Assembly passed the Societies Registration (Amendment) Act…