Tag: Teachers

LAHORE - A teachers' group at the Punjab University condemned Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PUASA) President Maher Muhammad Saeed Akhtar for allegedly securing the corrupt varsity teachers involved in academic corruption. The group called the Teachers' Front (TF) alleged that Maher's son was involved in 'illegal' activities at the varsity while Maher supported IJT activists and got them illegally admitted in the varsity.
They also alleged that Maher supported the

ISLAMABAD - No serious effort was made on the part of federal government to restore suspended educational activities in over 370 institutes of Islamabad, as teachers continued boycott of classes for a second consecutive day on Friday. The protesting teachers, affiliated with the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE), have been boycotted classes since Thursday against the non-implementation of the teachers' package announced by the prime minister on November 8 last year.
They

ISLAMABAD - Classes were boycotted completely by the teachers affiliated with Federal Directorate of Education on Thursday to register their protest over the non-implementation of teachers' package announced by the prime minister on November 8, last year.
Demonstrations were held by the teachers during the last three months in the premises of their schools but on Thursday they boycotted the classes also. Dozens of protesting teachers gathered in front of FDE, where they raised

LAHORE - Hundreds of Trained Graduate Teachers (TGT) working under the federal government nationwide, have been shown the door without any prior notification, as their three and a half years' contract expired on February 15. The school teachers were initially employed on a two year contract on August 15, 2007 but instead of regularising their services after two years, as promised, they were given another one year contract on August 15, 2009.
They deserved regularisation of their

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - The teachers working under Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) have decided to boycott the classes and examinations from today (Wednesday) for an indefinite period to protest against the authorities' failure to implement the package announced by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.
The decision was made at a meeting of the teachers' representative body on Tuesday at FG Boys School in Sector G/9. Azhar Awan, President Federal Government Teachers Association

HAFIZABAD - Hafizabad Education Executive District Officer (EDO) Sohail Azhar Khan has suspended six employees including teachers for being absent from their duty. Reportedly, the EDO paid a surprise visit to the Government Higher Secondary School Sukheki and found a subject specialist (SS) Naeem, two elementary school teachers (EST), two clerks Anwar and Azmat and a laboratory attendant Tanveer Abbas absent from the duty and suspended all of them form the service immediately.
He

LAHORE - A number of University of Education (UoE) students held a demonstration on Thursday seeking the reinstatement of Dr Anwar Rehman Pasha and his wife Dr Shireen Pasha, who were sacked by the university's vice chancellor Dr Farhat Cheema on corruption allegations a few days ago.
The students demanded that the Punjab governor and UoE Chancellor Latif Khosa terminate the VC, claiming that she had sacked the professors due to personal grudge. They claimed that 38 students

LAHORE - The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) is going to arrange a 4-week Professional Competency Enhancement Program for Teachers (PCEPT). PCEPT aims to enhance and strengthen the pedagogical, andragogical, research, assessment, planning and managing capabilities of the faculty.
National Academy of Higher Education (NAHE) Phase II is a project of Learning Innovation Division (LID) for continuous professional development of 2,100

LAHORE - Senior Adviser to Chief Minister Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan Khosa has said that the teachers are main pillar of Education System. Keeping in view their importance in education system, the Government has great regards for them and ready to consider their demands sympathetically.
He said that their reservations regarding Boards of Governors (BOGs) of 26-colleges would be removed and their interests would be fully safeguarded. He expressed these views while meeting a

TUNIS - Thousands of protesters rallied in the main government quarter in Tunis on Monday calling for Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi to resign after the fall of veteran leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The security forces fired tear gas and sealed off the area with barbed wire as some protesters threw stones, charged police lines and smashed up a police car at the start of a make-or-break week for Tunisia's new transition government.
"Resign scum!" the protesters chanted

Lahore - A large number of University of Education (UoE) students staged a protest outside the Punjab Assembly (PA) on Thursday against sacking of UoE IT Director Anwar Rehman Pasha and his wife Shaheen. They demanded officials concerned to take stern action against people who thrashed students during Wednesday's protest, and chanted slogans against Pasha and his wife's termination. Protesters said that IT students are not allowed to enter varsity premises and IT students, including

ISLAMABAD - The teachers affiliated with Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) have been waiting for enhanced salaries, promotions and upgrading of institute since the prime minister's announcement to same effect, three months ago.
The FDE teachers seek implementation on the prime minister's statement of early November, in which he had pledged enhanced salaries and promotions for them.
President Islamabad Teachers Association, Azhar Awan on Sunday while talking to Pakistan

Lahore - While government schools are known to be unable to satisfy their teachers, private school teachers of the relatively lower-middle-class schools have also started to complain that their schools' administrations can not cater to their demands, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to the teachers, administration of these schools exploits them, whereas nobody in the government was willing to take up the issue. They said that after retirement, there was no mechanism of

ISLAMABAD - Higher Education Commission (HEC), in collaboration with the United States (US) Embassy, has launched a training course for Rawalpindi and Islamabad colleges' English teachers.
HEC Adviser Dr SM Raza was the chief guest in the opening ceremony of the course held on Tuesday.
He said that during the six-week course "Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages" (TESOL), the teachers from the public colleges would be able to improve their pedagogical and

LAHORE - During 2010, around 331 school teachers were removed from service by the Punjab School Education Department on various charges of corruption and misconduct, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The school education department also sent around 67 school teachers on compulsory retirement while salaries of around 1,614 school teachers were also deducted after disciplinary actions were initiated against them. Increments of around 296 school teachers were also stopped by the

LAHORE - Parents and teachers should help the Foundation for Rehabilitation & Education of Special Children (FRESH) in identifying slow learners for their proper education and training, FRESH Chairperson Ashba Kamran said on Monday. She said that inattentiveness, distractibility and learning disorders interfered with the child's academic progress despite presence of a normal IQ.
Even if the child does have special learning difficulties, he would face difficulties in learning,

LAHORE: Full bench of Supreme Court (SC) on Wednesday reinstated two Punjab University Center for High Energy of Physics (CHEP) assistant professors that were sacked by the varsity administration on the charges of plagiarism. Dr Maqsood Ahmad and Dr Alam Saeed are among the restored teachers whereas two other teachers Sohail Afzal and Rasheed Ahmad, who were also sacked, still wait for the Lahore High Court judgment.
The bench headed by SC Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry