Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood wants students to realize that the closure of schools doesn’t mean it is a holiday.
He said the decision to close schools was done with a heavy heart. “I request all students to use this time. Not as a holiday, but to revise their courses. Do homework,” he tweeted Tuesday morning.
Mahmood said the government had to be close down educational institutes because coronavirus infections were rising very fast. He asked students to continue with their studies “as much as possible”.
We had to close educational institutions because coronavirus infections were rising very fast. It was done with a heavy heart. I request all students to use this time not as a holiday but to revise their courses, do homework, in short continue with studies as much as possible
— Shafqat Mahmood (@Shafqat_Mahmood) December 1, 2020
Educational Institutions Closed
Earlier, Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood has said that all educational institutions; including schools, colleges, and tuition centers, will close down from November 26. Earlier today, the country’s education ministers met to review Pakistan’s Covid-19 outbreak and to take a final decision on extended winter vacations for school students.
Schools, Colleges, Universities
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad alongside Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr. Faisal Sultan, Mahmood said that from Thursday students will continue their education at home. In a tweet shortly after addressing the media, the education minister said: “When we say all educational institutions will close on Nov 26 and students will home learn, we mean all institutions without exception.”
Mahmood added that a “review session” will hold during the first week of January to gauge the country’s Covid-19 outbreak and a decision will be made accordingly. “God willing, educational institutions will reopen from January 11.”
Furthermore, Educational institutions had faced a six-month closure from March to September due to Covid-19 and now in the pandemic’s second spell; education ministry officials had said the closure had become imminent due to the rising numbers of cases.