Tag: Schools

Students show spirit at inter-school sports gala

-- Schools from different parts of Punjab participate in wide array of vibrant performances LAHORE: The resilience and vigour of students was spectacle to behold at...

PEF announces syllabi of QAT

LAHORE: Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) on Sunday announced the syllabi of Quality Assurance Test (QAT) for the new educational year 2018-19 for its partner schools...

Four private schools shut down in Quetta for two days in...

QUETTA: Four private schools situated on Zarghoon Road and Airport Road in Quetta have been directed to close down for two days due to...

GB students to get free uniform, food

  LAHORE: The Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) government is contemplating a plan to provide free uniforms to the students in public sector schools. Talking to APP here on...

Punjab govt bans dancing at school events, claim reports

Govt says reports 'totally absurd with fabricated facts' LAHORE: The Punjab School Education Department (PSED) on Monday placed a ban on dancing at various events in...

TF and TCF decide to adopt Sindhi as medium of communication...

KARACHI: Thar Foundation (TF) and The Citizens Foundation (TCF) on Thursday signed an agreement to adopt Sindhi as the medium of instruction in more...

Capital administration fails to install biometric system in Islamabad schools

Official says biometric attendance system to be fully functional in April ISLAMABAD: The government under its much-trumpeted Prime Minister’s Education Reforms Programme (PMERP) has...

APSMA to resist shifting of private schools outside cantonment area

  RAWALPINDI: All Pakistan Private Schools Management Association (APSMA) vowed that the bid of shifting all schools of the cantonment area from residential to commercial...

Schools hiring guards without security clearance: report

ISLAMABAD: As many as 1,047 educational institutions in Punjab categorised as ‘A+’ have hired security guards without a security clearance, according to a fresh...

Four illegally recruited teachers terminated from Kasur education dept

KASUR: Four illegally recruited teachers were terminated by the authorities after a fake recruitment scandal of the Kasur education department was brought into the...

Action to be taken against schools, clinics lacking fire-fighting arrangements

  RAWALPINDI: Civil Defence Department, Rawalpindi has decided to launch crackdown from March 1 against 30,000 private schools, colleges, academies, clinics and hospitals having no...

Schools closed in Tehran due to air pollution

Kindergartens, schools and high schools in Iran's capital Tehran remained closed for a second consecutive day on Tuesday due to heavy air pollution. Tehran Province's...

Notification banning corporal punishment in schools issued by Punjab govt

LAHORE: The Chief Minister Monitoring Force of the School Education Department on Saturday issued a notification banning corporal or other punishments to the students of...

Somalia forces demolish thousands of schools: Amnesty International

MOGADISHU: New satellite imagery analysis by Amnesty International gives the first comprehensive view of how thousands of structures, including several schools, were demolished in suddenly forced...

Govt schools in Punjab lack adequate number of toilets: report

LAHORE: Government schools in at least 34 districts in Punjab presently lack an adequate number of toilets for children, revealed a report on government...

Approximately 5,000 schools still closed in Sindh: report

KARACHI: Approximately 5,000 schools are still closed in Sindh even though ten years have passed since the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) led by Asif Ali...

Sindh’s school dept approves ‘Reading Performance Standards’

KARACHI: The Sindh School Education and Literacy Department (SELD) has approved Sindh's first-ever 'Reading Performance Standards' for the students of early grade across the...