The image of the “chalk and talk” classroom- static rows of desks, a teacher lecturing at a blackboard, a single textbook dictating the pace of learning for forty children at once- is dying everywhere. In its place, a new architecture is emerging: the school as a living CPU, a hyper-integrated ecosystem of sensors, software, and […]
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Indian teacher suspended over alleged strip search of students
A senior school teacher in India’s Rajasthan state has been suspended after being accused of forcing female students to remove their clothes during a search for missing money, triggering protests by parents and an official investigation. Read More: 133 government schools closed in Lahore due to unsafe buildings According to Indian media reports, the incident […]
Punjab CM directs education minister to teach one class weekly at public school
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed Provincial Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat to personally teach a class at a school every week. Chairing a special meeting on school education, the chief minister ordered a review of the digital mechanism for registration of private schools and sought proposals for the registration of tuition centres […]
Summer vacations to start from May 22 until August 23 across Punjab
The Punjab School Education Department has announced summer vacations in government and private schools across the province. According to the announcement, schools across Punjab will remain closed from May 22 to August 23, while academic activities will resume from August 24. The notification reads that summer vacations in educational institutions of Punjab will start from […]
Bringing Back Out-of-School Children to School in Sindh
Out-of-school children are not only an education issue. They are a national challenge, a social concern and a development emergency. When a child remains outside the classroom, the loss is not limited to one family. The whole society loses talent, confidence, productivity and future leadership. Pakistan today faces one of the biggest education challenges in […]
School Shootings
The coffins in Kahramanmaras would haunt Turkey for years. Eight children and a teacher were buried after a 14-year-old walked into a middle school with pistols taken from his father and turned classrooms into a killing ground. A country (like many others around the world) that has long treated school shootings as an American sickness […]
$80 million Sindh School Meals Programme announced with help of US agri dept
The Government of Sindh and the United States Department of Agriculture’s McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program launched the Sindh School Meals Program, which leverages US-provided commodities to deliver daily cooked meals and take-home rations to more than 200,000 students across nearly 1,300 primary schools in Sindh. With a USD $80 million […]
School-specific budget details made available online
Advancing transparency initiatives in Sindh, the details of the “School-Specific Budget” have been made available online. On the directives of Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah, the School Education Department, Government of Sindh, has for the first time made public the budget information of 34,106 schools across the province, uploading details of a total […]
Community members vow to enroll out-of-school children
A Broad Based Community Meeting (BBCM) was organized by the School Education & Literacy Department in collaboration with UNICEF and the National Commission for Human Development (NCHD), in Sujawal district, Taluka Mirpur Bathoro, Muhammad Biatar, said a release issued on Sunday. The event focused on the theme “Increased Enrollment and Retention of Out-of-School Children and […]
Austrian parliament approves school headscarf ban
Austrian lawmakers on Thursday approved a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14, a move rights groups and experts say is discriminatory and could deepen society divisions. The conservative-led government – under pressure from rising anti-migration sentiment – proposed the ban this year, arguing it is to protect girls “from oppression”. The opposition […]