KHANEWALDistrict Officer Education (DOE) Shaukat Sherwani said that the government had issued up-gradation grant of Rs400,000 for each of 63 high school in the district He said that fund was being spent on renovation, purchase of new furniture and construction of toilets in schools.He stated this ...

STRASBOURG, France : Police on Friday deployed across high schools in the eastern French region of Strasbourg following Internet threats by a young man to stage mass killings and shoot himself, a day after a gruesome suicide at a Paris primary school. The police also released photographs of the ...

ISLAMABAD (PR): Annual Parents Day & Montessori Graduation Ceremony 2013 of Roots Millennium Schools Thematic Montessori, F-7/1, Islamabad was celebrated with great enthusiasm on Thursday. Annual Parents Day is the day for parents in which their children come up with beautiful and enchanting ...

MINNESOTA SN - Bulletproof whiteboards are being introduced in some US schools in what is being seen as adding a last-resort layer of safety for teachers and students against shootings.The schools include one where there was an attack a decade ago in which two students were killed.The 18-by-20in ...

LAKKI MARWAT - Local Government and Rural Development Department Assistant Director Syed Khalid Israr Shah launched the enrolment drive of five- year-old children in the schools at a function in Government Primary School No. 2, Meenakhel (Mandar) on Monday.He put his signatures on the admission ...

RAWALPINDI  – It is a sorry state of affairs that scores of schools have been established in residential buildings while the concerned department is acting like a silent spectator.With the connivance of RDA officials at least 45 Schools located in Rawalpindi have shifted to Asghar Mall ...

ISLAMABAD – Young boys and girls celebrated Street Children Day by sharing their hopes and fears about corporal punishment in a drawing competition Friday.Child Rights Network Pakistan (CRNP) along with its youth volunteer initiative Youth Network Pakistan (YNP) launched a campaign against ...

 LAKKI MARWAT - The Female Education Department has appointed two focal persons to implement the government policy to stop corporal punishment in girl schools of the district, said district education officer Parveen Khattak on Friday.  Talking to TheNation in her office, she said that ...

PESHAWAR - KPK Caretaker Minister for Local Government, Finance, Planning and Development Abdul Rauf Khan Khattak has directed strict action against illegal educational institutions, NGOs, hostels and offices situated in residential areas. During a briefing at the Peshawar Development Authority ...

RAWALPINDI – The Punjab Educational Foundation (PEF) launched a comprehensive institutional mechanism for banning corporal punishment in its more than 100 partner schools in the province. The mechanism has been developed in collaboration with the internationally acclaimed voluntary ...

GAZA  - New rules from the Education Ministry of the Islamist Hamas movement ruling the Gaza Strip will bar men from teaching at girls’ schools and mandate separate classes for boys and girls from the age of nine.The law, published on Monday, would go into effect next school year and ...

KARACHI - Taking notice of complaints about the misuse of practical journals of the matriculation classes’ students, Board of Secondary Education Karachi (BSEK) has decided to collect the practical journals from the public and private schools, and deposit at the board office.  The board ...

RAWALPINDI  - Punjab Education Department is mulling over the formation of a new system, named “Office of Education Standard” for the monitoring of schools of the province.According to sources, the education department received many complaints from teachers of the province against ...

Anti-literacy militants blew up two boys primary schools with explosives here in Mohmand Agency on Wednesday.According to details, unknown miscreants had planted explosives material in two government run boys primary schools located in tehsil Haleemzai of Mohmand Agency.The explosives blasted with ...

PESHAWAR - Militants blew up two government schools in Badhber area and Khyber Agency on Wednesday. A government primary school was targeted in Badhber area of Peshawar. In yet another incident, militants targeted a government primary school in Khyber Agency's Akakhel area. Security forces reached ...

Schoolgirls are being denied a potentially life-saving cervical cancer jab at their schools on religious grounds, The Guardian reported the other day.Some schools in England have opted out of the HPV vaccination programme because their pupils follow strict Christian principles and do not have sex ...

OKARA - The Punjab Chief Minister’s “Education for All” policy proved nothing more than a claim as it had failed completely to bring about any positive change the “rusty” education sector. The parents and civil society members to whom this scribe talked here the other ...

KARACHI - DHA educational institutions organized a 'cleaning the beach campaign', at Sea View beach, it was organized by students of DHA. The ceremony was held near Floating Kitchen. More than 500 students of DA Model High School, wearing colourful caps and specially prepared aprons and gloves, ...

KARACHI  - The Advisor to Chief Minister Sindh on Media, Sharmila Farooqui, on Monday warned private schools in the metropolis to stop charging fee of coming June-July months falling in summer vacation.Otherwise stern action would be taken against them, she said in a statement issued ...

KARACHI - Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq has said that English medium schools will be established soon under pilot project in each taluka of Sindh to improve education standard of the government sector schools and to compete with private sector, enabling the students of Government ...

LAHORE - The students of the Government College University will teach at the under-resourced government schools in collaboration with international organisation “Teach for Pakistan” and work for improving communication skills, personality development, knowledge enrichment and ...

LAHORE - All Private Schools Management Association President Adeeb Javedani has said that if the Punjab government will not remove taxes on private school, they will launch a protest movement. While addressing a press conference at the Press Club on Wednesday, Javedani said the Punjab government ...

ISLAMABAD - Snooker should be included in the syllabus in colleges and schools as a subject the country to find world-class players in near future, said national junior snooker champion Hunain Aamir Tito in an exclusive interview with TheNation on Wednesday. Hunain (15), who is a 9th class student ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Education Foundation has distributed a sum of Rs 7.5 million among 50 partner schools of 12 different districts who topped quality assurance tests as an honorarium. The ceremony was held at Children’s Library Complex on Thursday with Chairman Punjab Education ...

LAHORE - The Punjab government is spending an amount of Rs.13 billion on the up-gradation of 3068 primary and middle schools situated in different districts of the province so that the students could get education near to their homes without being financially burdened. This was stated by Chairman ...

KARACHI – National Bank of Pakistan has rehabilitated 10 flood-damaged public sector schools and provided furniture, equipment and installed tube-wells for drinking water in the schools in district Nowshera, the objective of rehabilitation is to make flood-hit schools functional for the ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed five resolutions, including the one banning the use of mobile phones in boys and girls schools, and colleges. A resolution moved by Rahila Khadim Hussain asked the House to ban the cellphones in all the boys and girls schools and ...

LAHORE - Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has announced the result of 12th quality assurance test of 1763 foundation assisted schools having a total strength of 195,000 students in 29 districts.According to spokesman of the PEF, passing percentage remained 95pc. 233 schools took 100pc marks in ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - The Social Welfare Department arranged here on Sunday a child forum in collaboration with the Unicef.District Officer Social Welfare Ch Muhammad Irfan, Deputy District Officer Fazal Abbas, Child Rights Committee District Coordinator Tahir Zeeshan, Azlan Iqbal Butt, Ijaz Iqbal, ...

MUZAFFARABAD - The education sector that was adversely affected by the October 8, 2005 earthquake still needs the attention of the government and donors, as 1,847 damaged schools alone in Azad Jammu and Kashmir still await funds for reconstruction. According to officials, after the earthquake only ...