Tag: Education

LAHORE - Educational experts and citizens, on Thursday, have expressed concern over the revelations of the report issued by Pakistan Education Task Force (PETF) that says that Pakistan has been crippled by an education emergency that threatens tens of millions of children. A senior analyst and Pakistan Law College Principal Dr Humayun Ehsan said no government throughout country's history was serious for promoting education. He said that the current leadership lacked political will,

LAHORE - Our future as a nation is linked with modern education and it can help us find our deliverance from the extremism and terrorism, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said here Wednesday. He was addressing at a briefing on education reforms, for schools in Punjab, devised by British educationist Sir Michael Barber. He said that Punjab government was implementing a comprehensive programme for overhauling the education sector.
Mujtaba Shuja, Saira Afzal, chairman of Punjab

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Wednesday said that "Education for All" is yet another challenge which requires collective efforts across the political and social divide in the interest of our future generation and the larger interest of the country. Rational planning in this sector at different levels has to be done to achieve the desired literacy rate and ensure the quality of education, he added. The Prime Minister was chairing a special meeting on education

KARACHI - Contrary to the presumption of the media, both domestic and international, the education gap in Pakistan is not actually being addressed by madressahs - only six percent of students attend Madressah, according to the 'Education Emergency Pakistan Report' released on Tuesday by the Pakistan Education Task Force (PETF) as part of its March for Education Campaign. As far as the results of State-sponsored education are concerned, only 35 percent of school children in Pakistan,

ISLAMABAD - Speakers on Monday stressed that government must focus on eradication of root causes of extremism and terrorism including poverty, lack of education, unemployment and injustice, in order to bring normalcy in the country. They said after the military operations in different tribal areas there was dire need to make immediate plan for the abolishment of poverty, illiteracy, injustice, unemployment and unresolved political disputes because all the elements collectively give

LAHORE - The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has cited efforts to destroy the education system in the countries hit by conflict, a report published in The Guardian said. The annual report on the state of education, the UNESCO says the Israeli military attacks in Gaza left almost 300 schools in rubble and 350 children dead, while the targeted attacks by insurgents in Yemen, Thailand, Pakistan and Afghanistan are also aimed for the same purpose.

Lahore - British House of Lords member Lord Nazir Ahmad attended the opening ceremony of an education project James's new campus at Ravi Block on Monday. He said, "No society can prosper without education; a homogenous education system for both rich and poor is the need of the hour." He said if the politicians wanted democracy they should prefer national interest to individual interests.
Pakistan Tehrek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Lahore President Mian Mahmood-ur-Rasheed, Cahirman, Zafar

LAHORE - The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) is promoting education in marginalised segments of society through public-private partnership (PPP), the PEF spokesman said in a statement on Saturday. He said that the PEF is also working to educate one million partner school students in Punjab about hazards of environmental degradation and the possible role students could play in protecting their environment by mobilising other children and their families.
Students are an

COMMENT - Nowadays corruption is not only the focus of the print and electronic media, it is a topic on which nearly every Pakistani, rich or poor, educated or un-educated, has something to say and can and does speak ad nauseam - so rampant it is. Stories of corruption by sections of the military, judiciary, politicians, personnel of different state departments, abound and add to the despair and hopelessness of the situation.
Discussions on corruption usually begin with problems

KARACHI - With the sky still red and sun yet to rise above the horizon; birds singing and crows cawing; around a dozen boys and girls, carrying school bags on their shoulders, start their long walk on a narrow path passing through white sand dunes, surrounded by desert plants.
Wearing tattered slippers and clothes; weak physique and faces pale due to malnutrition; their eyes glitter with excitement on the journey of seven kilometres in the vast Achhro Thar (White Desert). For

ISLAMABAD - Dr Arshad Ovais Qazi, a director in Education Department, was stabbed to death by unknown assassins on Tuesday. According to police, Arshad was killed inside his house located in G-8 Sector.
His wife, who is a teacher in FG College Rawalpindi, and children, were not present at the time of the gory incident, SI Flak Sher of the Margalla Police Station said, adding that Arshad's children found their father in a pool of blood after returning from school.
He said

LAHORE - Third international conference on medical education was inaugurated at the FJMC Thursday by President College of Physician and Surgeons Pakistan Prof Zafarullah. International delegates from UK, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore and USA are also attending the two-day gathering, planned to share with the rest of the world, the development have made in medical education in our part of world. In this connection, eight pre-conference workshops, attended by over 170 participants,

LAHORE - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Pakistan has signed a "Letter of Understanding" with a national youth led organization, Chanan Development Association (CDA) to strengthen Youth Peer Education Network (Y-PEER) in Pakistan as well as carrying out multiple youth development activities across the country.
The activities includes conducting National Training of trainers' workshops for young trainers to equip youth lead organizations to execute peer education

KARACHI - Education is the only mechanism of eradicating terrorism and ensuring that peace prevails, said Senate Chairman Farooq H Naek on Monday at the book launch of "Hassanally Effendi: The founder of Sindh Madressahtul Islam" held at a local hotel.
The book on Khan Bahadur Hassanally Effendi has been written by Dr Muhammad Ali Shaikh, principal of the Sindh Madressahtul Islam (SMI) College, as a tribute not only to the founder of an educational institution but also a man

ISLAMABAD - Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) has shown its concerns over what it called the deteriorating standards of education as 133 posts in BS 16-20 could not be filled in 2009 for lack of suitable candidates.
According to the details given in the FPSC annual report filed in the Senate on Friday, suitable candidates with required qualifications were not available or the people having such qualifications did not apply for these posts. A reason could be that better

GUJRANWALA - Punjab University Vice Chancellor Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran has said that at least 4 per cent of the GDP should be spent on the education sector for the development of the country.
Addressing the second convocation of GIFT University Gujranwala, he said education had never been on the priority of any government and this attitude should change to maintain Pakistan's status of solo nuclear power of the Muslim world. Board of Governors President Muhammad Anwar Dar and

HAFIZABAD - Punjab Education Secretary Muhammad Aslam Kamboh has said that the provincial government is spending billions of rupees on the promotion of education as it was its first priority. He was addressing a meeting held here at education office on the other day.
He called upon the officers of the education department to perform their duties honestly, in a professional manner and with the spirit of serving the nation. He directed the teachers to ensure 100 per cent enrolment