Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif visited Maryam Nawaz Center of Excellence for Special Education Students in Shalimar Town, Lahore, and launched the CM School Meal Program for Special Education Students by ringing the lunchtime bell. She also inaugurated Maryam Nawaz Center of Excellence for Special Education Students in Lahore, and gave cash prizes to […]
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Punjab to establish autism teacher training centre
The first meeting of the Board of Directors of Maryam Nawaz School and Resource Centre for Autism was held under the chairpersonship of Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Special Education Sania Ashiq. The meeting took several landmark decisions aimed at welfare, education and rehabilitation of autistic children in Punjab. In line with the vision […]
SETians observe Defence and Martyrs Day
A series of events was organized in Campus-1 and North East Campus of The SET School in Karachi to observe the Defence and Martyrs Day 2021 and the death anniversary of Qaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. In our country, the yearly commemoration of Defence and Martyrs Day marks the contributions of our military’s defence services. It […]
Protesters demand probe into Canada indigenous schools
Hundreds of protesters in Canada’s capital called on Saturday for a probe into a boarding school system for indigenous children, as outrage built after the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at several of the facilities. Until the 1990s, some 150,000 indigenous, Inuit and Metis youths were forcibly enrolled in the schools, where students were […]
Gunmen abduct 140 school students in northwest Nigeria
Gunmen kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria on Monday, a school official and police said, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren. Heavily armed gangs have long plagued northwest and central Nigeria by looting, stealing cattle and abducting for ransom, but since the start of the year they […]
Gunmen kidnap 140 school students in northwest Nigeria
Gunmen have kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, a school official said on Monday, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targetting schoolchildren and students. Heavily-armed criminal gangs often attack villages to loot, steal cattle and abduct for ransom in northwest and central Nigeria, but since the start of the […]
Trudeau doesn’t rule out criminal probe of indigenous school graves
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized Friday for “harmful government policies” and did not rule out a criminal probe after hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered at a former indigenous residential school in western Canada. The public mea culpa for the policy of indigenous assimilation and other historical wrongs comes one day after the Cowessess First […]
Nigerian school kidnap victims escape sleeping guards
Fifteen Nigerian hostages have escaped from their abductors as they slept, weeks after they were among more than 130 pupils and teachers snatched by gunmen from an Islamic seminary, the school’s headteacher told AFP Tuesday. On May 30 around 200 motorcycle-riding gunmen from one of the gangs known locally as bandits stormed Tegina town in […]
Three dead, two missing under Belgium school collapse
Three construction workers were confirmed dead and two still missing on Saturday, a day after a school construction site partially collapsed in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The city’s fire department tweeted that three bodies had been found under the rubble. “Despite this terrible toll, the rescue work continues unabated until we are also able to […]
Schools reopened in KP
The Elementary and Secondary Education Department Wednesday notified reopening of all public and private primary, middle, high and higher secondary schools across the province with immediate effect. All classes of primary, middle, high and higher secondary schools in winter areas would be normal school timings while all primary, middle, high and higher secondary schools in […]