Education

Gul Farzana from Booni appointed SDEO

CHITRAL: Gul Farzana, assistant subdivisional district officer Booni, has been promoted and made the subdivisional education officer (SDEO) of Mulkhow/Torkhow, upper Chitral. She has been associated with the education department since 2005. She joined the department as SET  through the Public Service Commission and in 2011 qualified for the post of assistant district education officer.

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Learning never stops

By Ali Haidar Baig Warren Bullet once said: “The more you learn the more you earn.\” His words are milestone and appealing for every sensible beings who believe in the worth of learning. If we look at the life of successful people such s Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Oprah, Mark Cuban and others,

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Supreme Court hints at nationalizing private schools

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday hinted at directing the government to take control of private educational institutes, Express News reported. A three-member bench comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Faisal Arbab and Justice Ijazul Ahsan heard a case regarding the use of contemptuous language in a letter addressed to the top judge by the administrations

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Male employees barred from contacting female teachers

PESHAWAR: The Elementary and Secondary Education  Department has issued a notification under which no male government employee can contact female teachers via phone or social media. The notification said adviser to the chief minister for elementary and secondary education Ziaullah Bangash took the step to curb incidents of harassment. A meeting of the education department

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CSA Peshawar elects new president

PESHAWAR: Chitral Students Association (CSA) Peshawar chapter elected Daniyal Saif as its president for the year 2019-20 in an election held here. Mr Saif scored 168 votes against Adnan Sajad who bagged 96 votes. Another aspirant, Basit Ali, remained third with 92 votes. The new president said he would try his best to resolve issues

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Teachers unable to teach in English language set to go home

PESHAWAR: Hundreds of teachers of government primary schools in KP have opted for premature retirement over inability to teach their respective subjects in the English language due to the change of the medium of instruction from Urdu to English language around four years ago. Ofvicials said more and more teachers had been taking premature retirement

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Proposal for promotion of 480 college teachers without training rejected

PESHAWAR: The provincial establishment department has turned down the proposal of higher education department to promote 480 teachers of government colleges without conducting mandatory training, according to officials. They said that higher education department had moved a summary to Chief Minister Mahmood Khan to exempt the teachers, whose promotion was due but they couldn’t conduct

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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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