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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…

PAKISTAN EDUCATION STATISTICS 2022 – 2023

Pakistan’s education system spans multiple levels, including compulsory education for children aged 5-16, covering pre-primary to higher secondary education, with 349,909 institutions serving over 56 million students as of 2022-23. Despite improvements, around 26 million children remain out of school, with girls making up a significant portion. The out-of-school crisis…

Transport For Schooling

A JUDGE at the Lahore High Court recently ordered that schools should arrange for…

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

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

40 Schools In Residential Buildings Sealed

GUJRANWALA: A joint team of the district administration and Metropolitan Corporations (MC) on 3rd March sealed more than 40 private schools being run in residential buildings. The team was led by City Assistant Commissioner (AC) Iqra Mobeen Gondal, while MC Chief Officer Haider Chattha accompanied her. The AC said that…

Kohat Villagers Demand Facilities In Schools

KOHAT: Elders from a far-flung village in Ghorazai Payan area here have demanded basic facilities in the local girls and boys schools and an end to unannounced power loadshedding and gas outages and low pressure. In a joint message on March 1, retired Subedar Zahoor Khan, Haji Ikhtiar Khan, Khudai…

Enrollment For Early Childhood Education Begins

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Education Rana Sikandar Hayat launched an enrollment campaign for the first early childhood education (ECE) project on 28th February. He enrolled his son as the first student at the Nawaz Sharif Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Education in the Children’s Library. The minister claimed that…

Public Schools Witness Low Enrolments

RAWALPINDI: Private schools have once again dominated the admission process for the 2025 academic year. Despite announcements, public schools have yet to begin new admissions, and a large number of parents have already enrolled their children in nearby private schools. Smaller private institutions with fees as low as Rs1,000 have…

5,000 Permanently Absent Teachers To Be Sacked If They Fail To Report Back: Education Minister

The provincial education minister, Syed Sardar Ali Shah, on 21-February-2025 ordered taking action against permanently absent teachers (around 5,000) and dismissing them if they fail to report back. Officials said an annual review meeting, chaired by Sindh Minister for Education and Mines & Minerals development Syed Sardar Ali Shah, resulted…

SDGs In Schools

AFTER the Millennium Development Goals failed to yield satisfactory results, the world needed a more holistic approach that could provide solutions sustainable in nature and that would have a global impact. Thereafter, the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, also called the ‘Global Goals’ and the ‘2030 Agenda’, were introduced from the…

Women Development Department Aims To Build Schools For Minor Jail Inmates

The Sindh government’s women development department aims to actively partner with dedicated charities and non-profits in the education sector to build quality schooling facilities for minor children of female jail inmates who live in the prisons in Sindh along with their mothers. Talking to The News in her office, Sindh…

Teacher To Be Booked For Student’s Torture

LAHORE: Sheikhupura District Education Authority Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rana Naeem sought a criminal case against the teacher of a private school for torturing a female student some weeks back. The CEO conducted a hearing of a complaint lodged by the parents of a seventh grade student, Minahil, against the…

Girl Student Tortured By Principal Over Celebration

NAROWAL: A Class-X girl student was allegedly tortured by the principal for signing a uniform shirt during a school celebration in Muzaffarpur tehsil of Sialkot. According to Adeel Anwar, a resident of Defence Road, his 16-year-old daughter, Warda Adeel, who is a heart patient, was tortured by the principal. He…

FDE Schools To Have Cambridge Education System

ISLAMABAD: Parliamentary Secretary for Federal Education and Professional Training, National Heritage, and Culture Farah Naz Akbar informed the National Assembly on 14th February that the Cambridge Education System was being introduced in colleges being run by Federal Directorate of Education (FDE). During the question hour, she said that the initiative…