Education

UoC launches second journal on linguistics

CHITRAL: Within two years of its establishment, the University of Chitral has launched second research journal on linguistics and literature to provide a forum for scholarly interaction of the researchers in the disciplines of linguistics, literary and cultural studies. Prof Badshah Munir Bukhari, project director of the university, said the journal sought to publish quality

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Authority\’s role to regulate private schools demanded

CHITRAL: Local residents have demanded the extension of the role of the Private Schools Regulatory Authority to Chitral region to check exploitation by private schools. In a statement issued here on Tuesday, Jughoor village nazim Sajjad Ahmed Khan said Chitral district had more than 200 privately-owned schools, which needed to be regulated. He said unfortunately,

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Public education suffocates under surging population

At the Tanjai Cheena school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa students squeeze into makeshift classrooms where plastic tarps serve as walls and electricity is sparse, as a surging population overstretches the country\’s fragile education system. Sandwiched behind desks like sardines, students repeat words learned in Pashto and English during an anatomy lesson: “Guta is finger, laas is hand”. Two teachers

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