Tag: Education

The government has finalized Single National Curriculum from grade six to eight in all public and private schools, which will be formally notified today (Friday).

In an exclusive interview with News and Current Affairs Channel of Radio Pakistan, Director National Curriculum Council Dr Maryam Chughtai said under the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan, new Single National Curriculum in the next phase is being implemented from August this year.

She said Single National Curriculum is based on compulsory subjects like Maths, Science, Computer and English to ensure equal standard of concepts and education of all children.

Source: Radio Pakistan

Ministry of Education and Cellular Company Telenor have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for equipping six primary level schools with basic IT hardware and digital management learning system.

This initiative of the education ministry is aimed at extending high quality standardized digital education to the underserved students and schools.

Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood termed it a great step forward to realize dream of digital Pakistan and digital education system. He reiterated his commitment to make Islamabad schools as model for rest of the country. He said this initiative will be expanded to more than four hundred schools of Islamabad.

Source: Radio Pakistan

First Lady Samina Alvi says provision of education to girls is vital for making women empowerment.

Addressing an event in Islamabad on Monday, she said the government is committed to facilitate women entrepreneurs for their businesses.

She said the President and the Prime Minister of Pakistan are taking keen interest in facilitating women to provide level playing field in the development of the country.

She said Pakistani women are effectively working shoulder to shoulder with men in rendering services to the nation in different fields.

The first lady said strong and healthy women can play an active role in making a strong society.

Source: Radio Pakistan

Director-General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Services Dr. Niaz Mohammad has urged the Managing Director of the Private School Regulatory Authority to ensure vaccination of all students of private educational institutions in the drive starting from Tuesday.

In a letter sent to the MD PSRA, he urged that owners of private schools be instructed to extend full cooperation to the vaccinators in this regard. The campaign would target 9,500 private schools where 100,000 students out of 648,000 have already been immunized. He added that vaccination of students is in line with the guidelines of National Command and Operation Center to contain the spread of the virus.

Source: Radio Pakistan

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to seal all public and private educational institutes in the province with less than 99% of Coronavirus vaccination rate among students from 16 February 2022.

Taking to Twitter, KP’s Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education, Shahram Khan Tarakai, penned that the provincial government has decided against closing educational institutions despite the surging COVID-19.

The academic process will continue uninterrupted. All schools and colleges are required to ensure the Coronavirus vaccination of students aged 12 years and above at the earliest.

In this regard, the provincial Education Department in assistance with the Health Department will also launch a special COVID-19 vaccination campaign for the vaccination of students in both public and private schools and colleges in the province.

The special vaccination campaign will start from 1 February 2022 and continue till 15 February 2022. All public and private educational institutes failing to vaccinate 99% of their students during the campaign will be shut down from 16 February 2022.

The Minister added that the decision of the provincial government is in line with the guidelines of the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC).

Source: Pro Pakistani

For the law graduates who aspire to get registered with Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) as lawyers, the Higher Education Commission (HEC) has scheduled the Law Graduate Assessment Test (Law-GAT) for 20 February 2022 tentatively.

The LLB graduates and those who have equivalent degrees from a university recognized by HEC or PBC can register themselves online through http://etc.hec.gov.pk by 7 February.

According to HEC, the applicants will be able to download roll number slips through the website a week before the test date and will be required to furnish it along with the original CNIC before entering the test center.

HEC will inform the registered applicants regarding the test date, time, and venue through email and SMS. It has advised the candidates to provide a valid email/mobile number while filling out the online application form.

The test to be held in different cities of the country will be based on Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs). Successful candidates will be able to apply to PBC for registration as a lawyer.

Eligibility Criteria

Candidates with a bachelor’s degree in Law from a university recognized by HEC and PBC are eligible to apply.

Test Centers

The assessment test will be conducted in the following cities:

Islamabad

Lahore

Karachi

Sukkur

Abbottabad

Quetta

Multan

Hyderabad

Turbat

Bahawalpur

Peshawar

Muzaffarabad

Faisalabad

Gilgit

Applicants may select a test center of their choice when filling out the online application form. However, the test will only be held at any of the above centers if a minimum of 100 applicants select that center.

How to Apply for Law-GAT 2022

Visit the link: http://etc.hec.gov.pk

Fill out all required information using the “My Profile” section

Then, go to the “Law-GAT Test” section on the menu panel and complete the process

Upload relevant documents, and click SUBMIT button.

HEC has underlined that only ‘SUBMITTED’ applications will be considered, while applications in ‘SAVE’ mode or incomplete will not be entertained.

Other Requirements/Conditions

A 50% score is required to pass the Law Graduate Assessment Test (Law-GAT).

Applicants will have to meet other criteria, if any, as per the Rules and Regulations of PBC.

Applicants will have a maximum of three chances to clear the Law-GAT test. HEC will conduct the test thrice a year.

Source: Pro Pakistani

The Government of Sindh has revoked the requirement of a B.Ed degree for all teachers at public primary schools to allow them to get promoted to the next grades.

Resultantly, more than 15,000 primary school teachers in the province will be promoted to BPS 15 and 16. Teachers who have served for 15 years will be promoted to BPS 16 and those with nine years of service will be promoted to BPS 15.

Primary school teachers have welcomed the ruling, stating that they had long demanded the requirement of the B.Ed degree to be repealed to facilitate their promotions to higher grades.

The Sindh Education and Literacy Department (SELD) had announced 40,000 job openings for primary and junior elementary school teachers in December 2020. Subsequently, 30,000 primary school teachers (PST) were inducted in the first stage and 10,000 junior elementary school teachers (JEST) are being recruited in the second phase of the hiring process.

It had also provided 37,000 job openings for primary and junior elementary school teachers in March 2021 to meet the shortage of school teachers in the province.

Source: Pro Pakistani

The Government of Sindh is considering closing down schools and colleges in Karachi on account of the growing number of cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.

The Sindh Health Department announced in a statement on Tuesday that the authorities are monitoring the situation closely and will make a decision in this regard within two or three days.

The development comes just a day after the educational institutes in the provinces reopened after the winter vacations.

The Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health, Dr. Faisal Sultan, revealed on Monday that the COVID-19 infection rate in Karachi had crossed 8.9 percent and that most of the cases were of the Omicron variant.

“People should protect themselves by wearing masks and get vaccinated because most of the cases are of unvaccinated people,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah, has directed the concerned authorities to increase the vaccination campaigns in Karachi and Hyderabad and take action against violations of the COVID-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs).

The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that the Omicron variant appears to have a “growth advantage” over the Delta variant which was previously the fastest spreading variant of the virus.

A recent study conducted by the University of Copenhagen, Statistics Denmark, and Statens Serum Institut (SSI), suggests that the virus can mutate itself against the immunity obtained from vaccines.

The researchers said, “Our findings confirm that the rapid spread of the Omicron (variant) primarily can be ascribed to the immune evasiveness rather than an inherent increase in the basic transmissibility”.

However, the study is yet to be peer-reviewed.

Source: Pro Pakistani