Tag: Teachers

KHANEWAL - At least seven senior teachers of the Government Girls' Model English High School were rewarded for best teaching by the Government of Punjab Education Department Lahore. As per details, it was announced by the department that teachers and heads of educational institutes showing hundred percent results in the academic years would be given cash prizes and commendation certificates.
In this regard, for the years 2008-09 and 2009-10, these seven senior teachers, Deputy

LAHORE - Various organizations of teachers community staged a protest demonstration for the demands of pay raise and other benefits, here in front of Press Club on Monday. The protesters were carrying placards and banners were chanting slogans in favour of their demands.
Addressing the gathering Muhammad Nasir and others urged the government's concerned authorities for giving proper benefits to the teachers. They demanded of the government to increase the pay package of the

KARACHI - Provincial Senior Education and Literacy Minister Pir Mazharul Haq has asked the teachers' community in general, and the Sindh Professors and Lecturers Association (SPLA) office-bearers in particular, to compare what the previous regime did for them and what they have achieved during the tenure of the present government.
According to a statement, the minister, while commenting on the SPLA declaration that it would protest against the Education Department, said," The

ISLAMABAD - Hundreds of students of various universities, professors, and employees of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) on Tuesday took to the streets against the ruling PPP for its decision to devolve HEC to provinces.
Carrying national flags in their hands, students and professors gathered outside HEC, where dozens of HEC employees joined them to protest against the proposed devolution. JUI-F Senator Azam Khan Swati also visited the venue to express solidarity with the

LAHORE - Punjab Teachers Union (PTU) office-bearers on Sunday condemned the deployment of teachers for non-academic duties including polio campaign and population census. They said that the PTU will boycott teachers' duties during the polio campaign and census.
The office-bearers urged the Punjab government to review its decision in this regard. PTU President Sajjad Akbar Kazmi, along with other PTU office-bearers, said
that how could teachers teach while performing

FAISALABAD - Hundreds of teachers and students of the Fatima Jinnah Girls College demonstrated against the killing of Assistant Professor Shagufta who was gunned down by unidentified culprits on March 30 in the Sadar police area.
The protesters demanded the police to arrest the killers. They alleged the police were showing negligence in the case. Earlier, the deceased's father, Rana Riasat, a resident of People's Colony No 1, reported to the Sadar police that the dead body of

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KASUR - It has been observed that the teachers of private schools are in a better position in imparting education to their students as compared to the teachers of government schools. The teachers of government schools are burdened with many activities ordered by the federal, provincial or district governments. They spend most of their time in extracurricular and other activities.
Normally, the higher authorities ask the government schools' teachers to conduct census and prepare

LAHORE - The private publishers have increased the prices of outsourced textbooks from 57 to 257 percent, Pakistan Today has learnt. The increase in prices serves as a reminder to the government to take notice of corruption of private mafia and faultiness in Textbook and Learning Material Policy (TLMP) that is barring education for the poor.
PARENTS, TEACHERS CONDEMN: Parents and students condemned the authorities; the Punjab government and the Punjab Textbook Board (PTB), for

KARACHI - The row between the University of Karachi (KU) administration and its teachers over the varsity syndicate's two controversial meetings has taken a sectarian colour, it has been learnt. A high-ranked KU official in an interview with Pakistan Today on Saturday alleged that a group of teachers belonging to a sect has started campaigning against the university's high-ups to tarnish their image.
"A particular group of teachers had started blackmailing the KU administration

LAHORE - The University of Punjab's Institute of Chemistry teachers and students have demanded Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr Mujahid Kamran use his authority to stop the Punjab University Academic Staff Association's (PUASA) smear campaign against newly-appointed institute Director Professor Dr Makshoof Ather. Sources said that some leftist teachers were trying to have Dr Zaid Mahmood appointed as the Institute of Chemistry director.
Teachers and students from various PU

KARACHI - Karachi University Teachers Society (KUTS) President Abid Hasnain on Thursday wrote a letter to Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan - also the KU Chancellor - apprising him about legal irregularities in the university's system as the KU Syndicate has been working without any representation from the varsity senate and that memberships of six syndicate members have expired. The teachers of University of Karachi (KU) have pit themselves against the administration and warned of

KARACHI - Five public universities in the province have been closed for the past 19 days due to the boycott of employees demanding medical allowances, residential plots and removal of contractual staff workers. Sources said the Governor's House is not taking this issue seriously despite five universities of the province being closed down. The continuing deadlock between the government and the university employees has left more than 50,000 students in a lurch.
The educational

KARACHI - The primary teachers removed from their service in 1995-96 by then PML-N government on Thursday warned of self-immolation if they are not reinstated to their jobs.
The protesting teachers - hailing from the Sindh chief minister's native town Khairpur - were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans and chanted slogans against the government's authorities.
Talking to newsmen, the teachers said that they were appointed as primary teachers in 1995-96 but

LAHORE - A large number of Punjab University teachers attended a rally organized by University Teachers Front here on Tuesday from IBIT to IBA against the behaviour of Academic Staff Association's office-bearers. Earlier, a meeting was held in the auditorium of Institute of Business and Information Technology which received strong attendance.
The meeting condemned the false propaganda meted out against the Vice Chancellor and senior teachers by ASA President Maher Saeed Akhter

ISLAMABAD - More than 7000 protesting teachers affiliated with Federal
Directorate of Education (FDE) on Tuesday called off their week long protest after government accepted their all demands in accordance with package announced by Prime Minister.
"All teachers will resume their duties on Wednesday (today) as secretary education and director FDE have assured us of the implementation of packages," said Azhar Awan, "We are giving twenty days to government for implementation of

ISLAMABAD - Extending their protest from the schools premises to roads, hundreds of teachers affiliated with Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) on Monday staged a sit-in at the D Chowk near the Parliament House, demanding regularisation and revision of their service structure.
Carrying placards in their hands, more than 3,000 teachers marched from the Press Club to the culmination point as they expressed their anger against the government for not fulfilling their demands.