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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…

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…

Blast Near Police Van on Security Duty Of Polio Team Kills 9 in Mastung

QUETTA: A bomb blast near a girls’ high school in Mastung, Balochistan, claimed the lives of nine people, including six schoolchildren, a police officer, and two passers-by. Thirty others were injured. The explosive device, planted on a motorcycle, exploded with great force, damaging several cars. Following the blast, eleven of…

Mastung Bombing

INSTABILITY continues to haunt Balochistan, as Friday morning’s bombing in Mastung has shown. At least nine fatalities have been confirmed — mostly children — while at the time of writing no group had claimed responsibility for this atrocity. Considering Balochistan’s complex vortex of violence, both separatist militants or religiously inspired…

Parents Opt For Tent Schools Over Privatised Education

Residents have set up a temporary school with volunteer teachers RAWALPINDI: Families in Sumbul Syedan village, Murree, have withdrawn their daughters from schools recently handed over to NGOs, opting instead to educate them in makeshift tent schools. Unhappy with the former Government Primary Girls School’s privatisation, residents set up a…

Female Teachers of Bara College Awaiting Salary for 10 months

KHYBER: Nine female teachers of the recently established Government Girls Degree College in Bara are awaiting payment of their salaries for the last 10 months. The aggrieved staff told Dawn during a visit to the college in Alamgudar area in Bara that they were faced with serious financial issues as they…

Mingora Students Attend Classes In Rented Shops, Garages

SWAT: Residents have complained the Government Primary School Rahimabad No 2 in Mingora’s Rahimabad area doesn’t have a permanent building, forcing more than 900 students both boys and girls to attend classes in rented shops and garages. They said the school, established years ago, never had a proper structure, raising…

Prep Student Raped By School Employee

LAHORE: A prep class student was allegedly raped by a school employee in Faisal Town on 31st October. Lahore Operations DIG Faisal Kamran confirmed the incident, saying the police acted swiftly and arrested the suspect who was said to be an employee of the same school. The police also registered…

Take School To The Child

PAKISTAN is in the midst of a critical education crisis, with over 22.8 million children aged five to 16 years out of school, placing it second only to Nigeria in this context. The situation is especially dire for girls, with 53 percent out of school as compared to 43pc of…

65 Absentee Schoolteachers Sacked

QUETTA: The Balochistan government has sacked 65 ‘habitual absentee schoolteachers’ from service with immediate effect. Officials of the directorate of education of Balochistan said on Monday the termination orders of services of the schoolteachers were given by Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti. They said the chief minister had taken serious notice…

80 AJK, GB Girls Schools To Get Latest IT Equipment

ISLAMABAD: In a significant development aimed at enhancing digital educational opportunities for marginalized girls, the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training in collaboration with Unesco Pakistan has announced the deployment of advanced IT equipment in 80 government girls’ schools across Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) and Gilgit-Baltistan (GB). The…