EDUCATION

The federal government has announced that educational institutions in certain districts of the country will remain closed until April 11 in view of the growing spread of the corona virus. After which the provincial education ministers for Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have named the districts where schools will remain closed.   Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood: In a news briefing after …

The Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood has announced that from March 1, all schools will return to normal 5-day classes. The education minister made the announcement in his tweets on the micro-blogging website Twitter that from Monday, March 1, all schools will return to the routine of 5-day classes. In some large cities, schools were banned from dividing classes into …

Background: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, all the universities closed their campuses for students and shifted to online mode of education. It was announced that everything including course work, assignments, projects, quizzes, midterm and final exams would be held through online medium. Objection towards the online mode of education: At first, the adoption of online mode of education was slow …

Educational institutions across the country are expected to open on January 25 instead of January 11 The exams are scheduled to take place in late May or June. The final decision will be made on January 4 at the Inter-Provincial Education Ministers Conference. Educational institutions closed in Pakistan in November after the second wave of the corona virus. Students were …

Coronavirus and the ignorance of Private University in Islamabad On Tuesday, 17th of November, Bahria University Islamabad Campus conducted their mid-term examination. All students were told that strict SOPs will be followed and that they care about the health of students. But in reality, severe violation of SOPs was observed. No proper checking was being carried out to ensure whether …

Federal Minister for Education said that situation of corona virus is not so severe that educational institutions should be close; the health of children will not be compromised. Addressing a function in Islamabad, Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood said that the effects of the second wave of epidemics would be examined in detail at an education conference tomorrow (Thursday). …