The share of adolescents who report high levels of family support has fallen from 73 percent in 2022 to 67 percent in 2018, with the drop even more pronounced among girls, from 72 to 64 percent, the WHO Europe said. Youths also increasingly report school pressure, it added. In 2022, almost two-thirds of 15-year-old girls, […]
This innovative initiative utilizes digital technology to track teacher attendance in real time, providing administrators with instant access to attendance records. The system is part of the government’s comprehensive strategy to address concerns over teacher absenteeism and ensure educators are actively engaged in their roles. Key features of the attendance monitoring system include: – Real-time […]
In the state of Michigan, a father sued his daughter’s school district for $1 million after the instructor shaved her head. According to the Detroit Free Press, Jimmy Hoffmeyer has filed a lawsuit against Mount Pleasant Public Schools (MPPS), a teacher’s assistant, and a librarian, alleging that the incident violated his daughter’s constitutional rights. Hoffmeyer […]
The Sindh government postponed on Friday intermediate and matriculation exams that were scheduled to take place next week as it announced a province-wide lockdown from Sunday to control the fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, Addressing a press conference, Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said a “partial lockdown” was being imposed for a week […]
ISLAMABAD: The Ehsaas Waseela-e-Taleem Programme has set a target of enrolling an additional 1.75 million students during the current financial year. The programme will include one million primary class, 500,000 secondary class and 225,000 higher secondary students. Also, upon completion of the first quarter of the current financial year the students of secondary and higher […]
34-year-old Rani Khan, who was disowned by her family at the young age of 13 and forced into begging, set up a two-room transgender-only Islamic school in Islamabad in October 2020. Why it matters: While Pakistan’s parliament recognized the third gender in 2018; giving fundamental rights including the ability to vote and choose their gender […]
Unidentified gunmen have kidnapped 317 school girls in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, police said in a statement on Friday, the second such kidnapping in little over a week. Earlier, Sulaiman Tanau Anka, information commissioner for Zamfara state, told the local news agency that “unknown gunmen … took the girls away” in a midnight […]
Punjab Education Minister Murad Raas on Sunday said that instead of closing all schools; following the government’s recommended ‘smart lockdowns’ is a better option; the local news channel reported. In a Twitter update, the minister said that a meeting of all provincial education ministers; will be held on Monday, November 16, to discuss the prevailing […]
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) cabinet, in its meeting has approved the KP School Bags Act 2019 which limits the weight of the bags of the students. With that, KP has become the first province to introduce any law regarding the weight of the school bags. The Provincial Minister for Education Shahram Khan Tarakai said Khyber Pakhtunkhwa […]
Haripur: Three school children were killed while six others injured. When the tractor-trolley they were riding overturned near-beer village, some 45km from here on Monday. The reason behind the accident of children was reckless driving, police and eyewitnesses said. The tractor driver had offered a lift to the children and they were all riding joyfully […]
