ISLAMABAD: Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood said on Saturday thatthe health of students is the government’s top priority.
Taking to Twitter today, he said: “Any decision we make will be guided bythe advice of Health Ministry. Having said that 6 months closure deeplyaffected the students.”
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Shafqat Mahmood said the decision to reopen educational institutions acrossthe country was taken with “great care”. “Any hasty decision to close[them] will destroy education,” he cautioned.
On Sept 18, Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani announcedlinkthatthe government was delaying resumption of academic sessions of classes 6 to8 in schools across the province due to negligence seen in many educationalinstitutions in the implementation of standard operating procedures (SOPs)against coronavirus pandemic.
Classes six to eight were supposed to resume sessions from Sept 21, a weekafter the resumption of on-campus classes for the higher grades onSeptember 15.
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In a statement the previous day, Shafqat Mahmood had denied any change inplan over the phase-wise reopening of the schools across the country andsaid that a meeting would be held on September 22 before the resumption ofother classes of schools in the second phase.
“Our timetable is not yet changed,” said Shafqat Mahmood adding that theyhad decided unanimously over the resumption of academic activities ineducational institutes in early September.
