ISLAMABAD- Another feather in a cap of a Pakistani company for successfully manufacturing a world class most economical “face shield” for school goers and kids to protect against deadly Coronavirus. Designer Zia of the shield in Islamabad on Wednesday in a briefing to  President ...

ISLAMABAD - Waseela-e-Taleem programme of Benazir Income Support Programme has enrolled around 2.2 million primary school children in fifty districts across the country. According to an official of BISP, the programme was developed to financially support the primary education of four to twelve ...

ISLAMABAD - Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood Wednesday said the ministry would soon launch a Nationwide Literacy Campaign to increase the Literacy rate by at least 12 percent in next four years. During a meeting with a high level delegation of Ufone, the ...

ISLAMABAD – Federal Minster for Education and Professional Training, Shafqat Mehmood main target in education sector is to enhance literacy in the country and bring 22.8 million out of school children (OOSC) in schools. He said special wing will be constituted for this purpose in the ...

ISLAMABAD – Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training, Shafqat Mahmood Saturday said education is the topmost priority of the incumbent government in line with the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The Federal Minister was chairing briefing by Ministry of Federal Education and ...

Beijing: A knife-wielding man killed seven middle school children and injured 12 others as they returned home in northern China on Friday, authorities said, in one of the deadliest such rampages in the country in recent years. The suspect was detained and the injured children were receiving ...

LAHORE - More than 9 million children are out of schools in Punjab, which is Pakistan’s biggest province in terms of population. Out of those 9.2 million children, about 5.03 million of them are girls and the remaining 4.17 million are boys. Instead of ensuring that their future is secured, the ...

NEW DELHI - At least 27 children, some as young as 4 years old, were killed Monday when their school bus skidded off a mountain road into a gorge in the foothills of the Himalayas, officials said. Three adults were also killed in the crash, Himachal Pradesh state transport minister Govind Singh ...

*ISLAMABAD:* Pakistan still has 22.6 million out of school children by the end of 2017, Federal Minsiter has revealed. An increase in annual education budget from Rs 550 billion to Rs 850 billion was one of many other positive initiatives taken by the ruling party, said Federal Education Minister ...

UNITED NATIONS: Conflict and violence has driven more than 25 million children between 6 and 15 years old - about 22 per cent of children in that age group - from schools in war zones across 22 countries, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Monday. "At no time is education more ...