Back to School: Students in Pakistan return to Schools

After months of remote learning, students all over Pakistan return to their schools on February 1st, 2021. Schools are following all the SOPs. Schools are maintaining social distancing and checking the temperature of students.

Complete sanitization is ensured before students enter classrooms. Hand sanitizers are available at multiple points inside the campuses as well.

In a meeting last month, the National Command and Operation Centre decided that classes for each grade will be held on alternate days three days a week and the student strength will be 50%.

Yesterday, the Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood also tweeted wishing his best to students.

All the remaining educational institutions are opening tomorrow. I wish the very best to all students.

— Shafqat Mahmood (@Shafqat_Mahmood) January 31, 2021

In addition, Shafqat Mahmood said that the government will closely monitor coronavirus cases and close schools located in virus hotspots.

Students of classes nine to 12, O and A-levels resumed on January 18. As a result, these students can sit in their Board Exams. Furthermore, no student will promote without exams this year, he added.

Last week, the government also released the academic calendar for this year which gave the following schedule:

• May 18 to 31: centralized examinations for classes V to VIII
• June 1 to 15: in-house examinations for classes I, II, III, IV, VI, and VII
• June 30: results for centralized exams
• July 1: results for in-house exams
• August 2: new academic year begins

To compensate for the lost time, Pakistan’s educational institutions decided to remain open on Saturdays and not have winter vacations.