Minister for Education Shafqat Mehmood says increasing literacy rate and bringing out of school children to education network is foremost priority of the government. He was talking to Australian High Commissioner Margaret Adamson who called on him in Islamabad. The Minister apprised the Australian ...

ISLAMABAD - PTI government to launch unique technology based initiative to improve female literacy rate in Pakistan. Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood has said that the government is going to launch a new program that relies on technology, especially mobile phones and text messages, to ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan requires to establish a total of 1,564,000 Adult Literacy and 211,375 Non-Formal Centers during the years 2018-2025 to achieve 90 percent literacy rate by the year 2025.This was revealed by the data compiled by UNESCO and National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) for ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Social and Living Standard Measures (PS&LSM) Survey 2014-15 has revealed that literacy rate in Pakistan for the age groups 10 years and older, is 60 percent. The figures included 70 percent male and 49 percent female literacy people all over the country whereas the ...

FAISALABAD: (APP) Dr Nedim Makarevic, Ambassador of Bosnia, has said that Bosnia and Pakistan must invest in education to bring about qualitative socio-economic change in their societies.He was addressing a cultural show, organised by the Bosnian embassy in Pakistan at a local hotel here Friday ...

ISLAMABAD: (APP) Chairperson National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) Razina Alam Khan said that over 50.70 million illiterate persons would be made literate in next ten years under vision 2025 programme.In an interview, she said the literacy ratio would be enhanced from 60 to 90 percent. ...

ISLAMABAD: Despite of government measures to increase literacy rate 50.8 million children aged 5 to 16 in the country do not receive education. 20.68 million children are enrolled in schools while 24.40 million children are out of schools and 10.86 million children have never enrolled in schools. ...