Someweeks ago, the Federal Directorate of Education and Professional Training organised a wonderful summer fiesta for schoolchildren, with a wide range of skill-based workshops, seminars, lectures and activities. This kind of immersive experience with creative writing, financial literacy, digital technology, and so forth, is the urgent need for students who haven’t got much exposure to global skills. Sadly, these children will go back to teacher-led classrooms and traditional teaching after the summer break. Many
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OKARA: A man shot his sister dead as she skipped her 9th-class mathematics paper. As per the first information report, Sadia (16) had taken her 9th class exam conducted by the Sahiwal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education but she skipped the mathematics paper. When the result was announced the other day, her family came to know about her actions. Her brother, Adil Hussain, admonished her over the result and they exchanged harsh words.
Severe flaws have emerged in the online procedure for Intermediate admissions in Karachi. The online system has messed up the admissions procedure as DJ Science College, one of the most prestigious colleges in Karachi, is presently trailing in terms of merit behind a college that has been closed. Simultaneously, the merit scores for the PECHS girls’ college and several other reputable colleges have inexplicably dropped. This has created uncertainty and worry among students and
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to launch the ‘Taleem Card’ Project, with the pilot phase set to commence from Upper Chitral. This decision was made during a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur at the Chief Minister’s House here on 10 August, said a handout. Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education Faisal Khan Tarakai, Advisor to Chief Minister for Finance Muzzammil Aslam, Chief Secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, Secretary of
A sessions court has sentenced a man to seven years imprisonment for sexually abusing a minor boy. Saifullah alias Qari was found guilty of assaulting a ten-year-old boy in the Kashmir Colony within the jurisdiction of the Mahmoodabad police station in November 2022. Additional Sessions Judge (South) Ashraf Hussain Khowaja ruled that apart from a few contradictions of a minor nature in the prosecution evidence, which he termed immaterial, the case has been established
KARACHI: With approximately 700,000 book sets distributed, the Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) has claimed to have “successfully” completed the delivery of textbooks to government schools in the Karachi region. The move came almost a week after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah directed the education department to ensure the distribution of 4.453 million textbooks by August 14, 2024, to facilitate a smooth start of the new academic year in government-run schools. The schools
BAHAWALPUR: The Bahawalpur district health authorities would launch a vaccination campaign to protect over 6,500 registered nomad children against polio, measles, and other diseases. According to the district health officer (DHO), under a crash programme, the registration of gypsy children has been completed and the vaccinators of the health department would administer vaccines to them at their identified temporary camping sites. He said the performance of the field staff would be strictly monitored. Meanwhile,
The 2023 Census conducted by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics released its complete report in July 2024 indicates that the total population of Pakistan is 240 million out of which the population of children under 18 is 112 Million (47% of the total population). Children Population (under 18) Population under 18 Total Male Female Transgender Pakistan 112,472,700 58,099,978 54,370,121 2,601 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 20,321,058 10,502,857 9,817,981 220 Punjab 56,320,353 28,853,198 27,465,596 1559 Sindh 26,710,708 13,922,057
ISLAMABAD: Sahil’s Six Months Cruel Numbers data reveals that a total of 1,630 cases of child abuse were reported from across the country. In the first six months of 2024, 862 cases of child sexual abuse, 668 cases of abduction, 82 cases of missing children, and 18 cases of child marriages were reported. This year, 48 cases of pornography after sexual abuse were also recorded. Six-monthly data shows that out of the total reported
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 8 August directed the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) to establish 300 digital ‘microschools’ to enroll 300,000 out-of-school children and hire over 600 female learning facilitators and approved Rs800 million for the purpose. He gave these directives to the SEF while presiding over its board meeting that was attended among others by Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah, Chief Secretary Asif Hyder Shah, Planning and Development Chairman Najam
GUJRAT: In a shocking incident of gender-based hate crime, a man allegedly threw his infant daughter into a canal on 8th August for not having a boy. The incident happened at village Chak Fateh Shah of Dinga Police. Rescue 1122 team launched a search for the body of the three-month-old girl in the Upper Jhelum Canal. Initial investigation said Ali Ahmed Raza Sabri was not happy after he could not have a baby boy
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly was on 8 August told that there was no high school for girls in Lower Kohistan where 28 female students had reached high level in the entire district. In response to a question moved by MPA Sajjadullah from PK-32 Lower Kohistan, the Primary and Elementary Education Department informed that there should be at least 25 students for upgrading a middle school to a high level and there are about 28