Tag: out of school
Over 12m girls out of school in Sindh
KARACHI: Pakistan has more than 12 million girls’ student out-of-school out 22 million students with Sindh and Punjab at the top. Moreover, the provision...
Pakistan will need 81,200 more schools in next 20 years
Pakistan will require at least 81,000 new schools in the next 20 years in the wake of rising population and dismal condition of educational...
37 per cent children are illiterate in Pakistan: UNESCO report
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...
‘70% children are still out-of-school in Balochistan, 57% in FATA’
--Education report says 26 per cent government primary schools across the country run by single teacher
--22.84m children, 49 per cent girls not admitted in...
Child labour policy useless without govt implementation: activist Imran Takkar
PESHAWAR: Although Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) government has taken credit for introducing the first ever Child Labour Policy in the country, child rights activists believe that...
Pakistan currently has largest youth population in its history: UNDP report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan currently has the largest population of young people ever recorded in its history, according to a comprehensive National Human Development Report (NHDR)...
Pakistan’s out-of-school children create educational challenges
ISLAMABAD: Private schools, charitable institutions, and religious seminaries in the country are stepping in to supplement government-run schools to help deal with the education...