Tag: Education
PM stresses need for quality education to overcome problems
PESHAWAR: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday stressed the need for increased focus on the quality of education and said there cannot be...
Three in five Pakistanis cite lack of education as most prevalent...
ISLAMABAD: According to a survey carried out by, Gallup and Gilani Research Foundation, three in five Pakistanis cite lack of education and religious awareness...
SHC seeks maintainability of plea asking JIT to probe education departments...
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday directed Fixit campaigner Muhammad Alamgir Khan and a nongovernmental organization to satisfy it on the maintainability...
Education department to establish 450 non-formal education centres: Dahar
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar said that the Sindh Education Department is going to establish 450 non-formal education...
SC orders payment of salaries to education employees, rejects Govt plea
KARACHI: The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) on Monday rejected the education department's appeal against the verdict of a Tribunal which had ordered payment...
SEF’s 2000 schools provide education to chidren
KARACHI: Sindh Minister Education and Literacy, Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar was told that over 2000 schools are working under the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF)...
Jam Mehtab for enhancing quality of teachers’ training institutions
KARACHI: Sindh Education and Literacy Minister Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar said on Tuesday that issues of teachers’ training institutions would soon be addressed and the...
Rich, vibrant ‘Festival of arts and ideas’ concludes in SMIU
KARACHI: The “Festival of Arts and deas” organised by the Sindh Madressatul Islam University (SMIU) concluded on Sunday after four eventful days of lectures delivered...
Educational institutions hesitant to double quota for FATA students
ISLAMABAD: Educational institutions across Pakistan are hesitant to comply with federal cabinet's decision to double (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) FATA students’ quota.
The federal cabinet in...
Government paying special attention to education in South Punjab: minister
BAHAWALPUR: Punjab Higher Education Minister Syed Raza Ali Gilani on Wednesday said that government is paying special attention to the provision of quality education to...
Sindh govt to bear expenses of grades 9 to 12 students
KARACHI: The Sindh education department has announced to bear all expenses relating to registration, admission and examinations of students from classes 9 to 12 students.
The...
Need to overcome teachers’ shortage: education minister
KARACHI: Provincial Education and Literacy Minister Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar said on Wednesday that educational institutions should overcome the prevalent shortage of teachers, especially of...
264m children out of school, 100m unable to even read: GEM...
ISLAMABAD: The latest UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) report 2017 has made a startling revelation that a whopping number of 264 million children and...
This nation will re-elect its culprits
Until we incentivise education
It is, factually, for the first time that this nation has witnessed how an actual opposition operates. How an opposition...
Education minister warns teachers to quit non-governmental jobs
KARACHI: Provincial Minister for Education and Literacy Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar on Monday warned those government teachers who were working in newspapers, electronic media...
Govt indifferent to education as 22.6m children continue to remain out...
ISLAMABAD: Though lack of formal education remains a grave concern in the country and almost 22.6 million children continue to be out of schools,...
Plan devised to resolve education department issues, judicial commission told
KARACHI: The judicial commission, formed by the Supreme Court (SC) to implement its orders on water, sanitation, environment and related issues, on Saturday, was informed by...
