Education

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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District performance scorecard for schools issued

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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First research journal of University of Chitral published

 CHITRAL: First research journal of University of Chitral has been published which is a milestone in the field of research for the new university. The first peer-reviewed research journal with the title of \”The Journal of Religious Studies\” has contributions from 55 renowned academicians, professors and research scholars from Pakistan, England, Netherlands, Malaysia and Jordan.

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Female teachers also take to streets for seven months\’ unpaid salaries

CHITRAL: Like the Negahbans of the forest and wildlife departments, scores of women teachers belonging to the Basic Community Schools in Chitral on Monday held a protest demonstration outside the DC Office here against non-payment of their salaries for seven months. Addressing the protesters, Aftab Jabeen and Shazia Sultana said they have been teaching in

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Another Chitrali student\’s feat

Farida Bibi Mughal, a graduate of Aga Khan University School of Nursing and Midwifery, did her Bachelors of Science in Nursing in 2014 and recently completed her Masters of Science in Nursing from the same institute. She belongs to Charun, Chitral, and currently is residing in Karachi. She passed her masters degree with distinction by

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Scholarship cheques distributed among Kalash community students

CHITRAL: Cheques under the chief minister\’s scholarships for Kalash community programme were distributed among the students of Chitral University belonging to the Kalash community. At the cheque distribution function, minority MPA Wazir Zada said within a short time after its establishment the university had crossed a milestone. He said all-out efforts would be made by

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Future belongs to those who believe in beauty of their dreams

Mr. Noor Muhammad, son of Sher Muhammad from Gazeen Yarkhun was conferred with Master Degree in Education (M.Ed.) from Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development Karachi this year. He is a faculty member of Aga Khan Higher Secondary School Kuragh Chitral teaching mathematics since 2007. He proved himself to produce a qualitative work in

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