Two girls walk home through the Qasaba district on the outskirts of Kabul (Image and Caption: NYT/Jim Huylebroek)Projects under Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund are now stalled following Taliban leaders stopping girls from attending school. Reuters Last Updated:March 30, 2022, 09:15 ISTFOLLOW US ON:The World Bank has put four projects in Afghanistan worth $600 million on…Continue Reading
Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, speaks in the Treaty Room at the State Department in Washington on December 6, 2021. — AFPMalala says Afghan women know what “empowerment” is.Their resistance will not allow ban to remain forever.”Muslim world should not accept,” she says.The Taliban’s ban on girls’…Continue Reading
HEC Chairman Dr Tariq Banuri says country has been paying price of blunders made in its education system.Speakers at a KLF session recognise need for major reforms in Pakistan’s education policies and system.Agree that Pakistani universities need to be made autonomous and given academic freedom.Pakistani universities need to be made autonomous and given academic freedom in…Continue Reading
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce has ordered a review of how the Waterloo Catholic District School Board handled a situation in November that led to police being called to assist with a four-year-old student at a Kitchener school.Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce has ordered a review of how the Waterloo Catholic District School Board handled…Continue Reading
New Delhi: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed setting up a digital university on the ‘hub-and-spoke’ model and expansion of ’one class-one TV channel’ programme through 200 channels for providing supplementary education in regional languages in schools. The overall financial allocation for the education sector for 2022-23 has increased to Rs 1.04 lakh crore — said…Continue Reading
During the COVID-19 lockdown around the country, online classes for schools and universities became a necessity. But according to recent research, online schooling remains “woefully insufficient” across the country, with 40-70 percent of children living without access to a gadget. According to research published by Boston Consulting Group, over 80% of teachers said it was…Continue Reading
Students wear protective masks while maintaining safe distance as they attend a class as schools reopen amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Karachi, Pakistan September 15, 2020. — Reuters/FileEducation dept to base decision on schools’ closure on COVID-19 tests.Health dept teams to start testing of students in schools across Punjab.NCOC had said earlier schools…Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: The Union education ministry has advised parents, students and all stakeholders in school education to be careful while opting for online content and coaching being offered by ed-tech companies. The MoE, in its advisory issued on Thursday, said it has come to the notice of the department of school education that some ed-tech…Continue Reading
Vice President’s Secretariat Need to Indianise education system : Vice President Vice President stresses the need for India to emerge as global hub of innovation & learningVP says India was once hailed as Vishwa Guru and calls for reviving glorious tradition of holistic educationNEP is a holistic and visionary document, an important milestone in the…Continue Reading
Ministry of Education Education for Orphans Posted On: 06 DEC 2021 4:31PM by PIB Delhi Education is a subject in the concurrent list of the Constitution and majority of the schools are under the control of the respective State Governments. Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSEL), Ministry of Education is implementing Samagra Shiksha to…Continue Reading