The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on 11-September-2024 said that monsoon floods in Sindh had forced thousands of children out of school, as Pakistan struggled with recurring extreme weather events disrupting education and putting young lives at risk. “Children in
HYDERABAD: Speakers at a seminar called for urgent steps to unify efforts of the government, NGOs, and private sector to improve literacy as the literacy rate in Sindh particularly among rural women, trailed at just 51pc behind the overall national rate of
Sindh Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani has praised the exceptional philanthropic support extended by the industrialists of the Korangi Industrial Area (KIA) in Karachi to ensure that the children of the labourers employed by them get quality school education. Ghani expressed these
KARACHI: In a case of corporal punishment in a Korangi 1½ madressah, a minor orphan child was beaten by a seminary teacher with a thorny stick only for not memorising his lessons, said Korangi-SSP Tauheed Rehman Memon on August 22. The seven-year-old
Amid an already delayed academic session, the Urdu Bazaar Traders Association has highlighted concerns about a significant scarcity of textbooks on the market. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, association executives Sajid Yousuf, Hussain Abbas, Ali Muhammad Awan, Nadeem Akhter, and
KARACHI: With approximately 700,000 book sets distributed, the Sindh Textbook Board (STBB) has claimed to have “successfully” completed the delivery of textbooks to government schools in the Karachi region. The move came almost a week after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali
KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on 8 August directed the Sindh Education Foundation (SEF) to establish 300 digital ‘microschools’ to enroll 300,000 out-of-school children and hire over 600 female learning facilitators and approved Rs800 million for the purpose. He gave
The costs of depriving meritorious individuals of entry into the healthcare system manifest as healthcare breakdowns. Though the announcements of academic opportunities and exams in a transparent socioeconomic and political setting might elicit excitement among prospective aspirants, the same in our part
KARACHI: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on 31st July 2024 supported the Sindh government’s plan to offer free breakfast /lunch and milk to schoolchildren under its School Meal Programme (SMP). WFP Country Director Coco Ushiyama called on Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad
KARACHI: Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah has directed education authorities to increase school enrolment to six million, open 2,170 viable schools under the placement plan, and remove the biometrics of 1,700 teachers from non-viable schools. He issued these instructions while