Tag: Literacy

KARACHI: The number of school-age children in Pakistan is 50,158,104 out of which 37 per cent are unable to attend school, said a United...

PESHAWAR: The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has decided to enroll and estimate of 800,000 children in government schools in a fresh enrollment campaign which is expected...

Bilawal Bhutto says improving national literacy rate was the joint responsibility of both government and the society   The 52nd International Literacy Day was celebrated across...

KARACHI: The 13th Karachi International Book Fair began in Karachi’s Expo Centre here on Thursday. The international book fair, which is one of the biggest in Pakistan,...

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...

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...

Under the directives of the Punjab government, the literacy department has decided to initiate classes for grown-up students at 200 primary schools situated in...

Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) State Minister Barrister Usman Ibrahim said Monday that it is “our collective responsibility to increase the literacy rate...

A research report by U.N. education agency says cell phones are getting more and more people to read in developing countries, including Pakistan, ...

ISLAMABAD- According to the latest released findings of Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey 2012-13, by Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, the adult literacy rate...

According to latest report of UN education department UNESCO, the illiteracy percentage was 79 percent in Pakistan in 2012 and the number of Pakistan...

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has vowed to attain target of 100 percent literacy rate during the next five years in Punjab. "100 percent...

Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy Pir Mazhar ul Haq directed Secretary Education to establish informal literacy centers across the province to instill formal...

Sindh Chief Minister’s Special Assistant on Media, Sharmila Faruqui presided over a prize distribution ceremony at Karachi Gymkhana and said that programmes conducted to...

An educated mother has the ability to lay the foundations of a healthy and enlightened society. The entire personality of a person revolves around...

President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Friday said that literacy was an effective weapon to fight extremism and intolerance,...

Anti-education elements have blown up two primary schools in tehsil Saafi, Mohmand Agency on Friday. These attacks take the number of destroyed schools in the...