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‘Free’ school could be set up in Department for Education building
May 11th
Plans for one of the Government’s flagship “free” schools to be set up within the Department for Education’s headquarters in central London were revealed yesterday.
The idea is to concentrate civil servants’ minds on their “mission” – educating children – as they walk to their offices in the morning.
David Bell, permanent More >
Academy or free school ‘should be first choice’
Apr 30th
An academy or free school should be the “first choice” of local councils planning to open a new school in their area, Education Secretary Michael Gove said today.
A growing population, particularly in major cities, means that more schools are needed to meet demand.
Mr Gove suggested today that his More >
High court challenge over school building scheme
Apr 25th
A High Court challenge against the Government’s controversial decision to axe Labour’s multibillion-pound secondary school rebuilding scheme will start this week.
Six councils in England are urging the High Court to find that the decision to scrap the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme was taken incorrectly.
Education Secretary More >
School head’s stammer nearly prevented career
Apr 23rd
The headmaster of one of Britain’s top performing independent schools reveals today for the first time how he was turned down for a teacher training course because he had a stammer.
Martin Stephen, High Master of St Paul’s Boys School in Barnes, west London, was told he would “not be able More >
The Texas Tribune: More High School Students Acquire Online Credits
Apr 9th
Mr. Rusnock is not a teacher. He is a grad coach, one of 27 in Houston monitoring thousands of students who take so called credit-recovery courses online. Like many other districts across the state, particularly those with high dropout rates, the Houston Independent School District offers these self-paced make-ups to More >
At English-Mandarin Public School, High Test Scores, but Also Strife
Apr 7th
Twelve years later, the school, on the Lower East Side, which runs from prekindergarten to eighth grade and has an enrollment of 660, boasts outstanding scores on standardized tests but is in turmoil.
The school is the target of nine city investigations stemming from allegations that it compelled families to More >
50pc children out of school
Feb 19th
N@STEC 10 concludes Islamabad, Jan 06: The concluding ceremony NUST Arts Science Technology Exhibition Competition (N@STEC 10) was held here at NUST-SCEE Auditorium on Wednesday.
The event kicked off on time, with two anchors from the Electrical Engineering department of NUST-SEECS taking the stage, the first item on the agenda was a More >
Disaster aftermath: Children disabled in the 2005 earthquake still out of school remote Battagram district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P),
Feb 1st
PESHAWAR: Jawad Khan, 15, spends most of his day at home in his village in the remote Battagram district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), sometimes glancing at a magazine, or occasionally helping his mother shell peas or cut up potatoes. His three younger siblings spend their day in school, and Jawad, a More >
Runaway students taken into custody missing Six students including three girls school in Rawalpindi
Jan 24th
PESHAWAR Six students including three girls who went missing from a school in Rawalpindi on January 19 were recovered from Hashtnagri locality here on Monday, sources said.
A police official said the six students ran away after reportedly being thrashed by one of their drill teachers in the school. Chief Minister More >
School blown up girls’ middle school in Matani
Jan 11th
PESHAWAR: The militants blew up girls’ middle school in Matani in the wee hours of Tuesday. The sources said the explosives planted at the building of the Government Girls Middle School in Matani went off early in the day and caused explosions that were heard far and wide. It was More >
PESHAWAR, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Technology inaugurated government high school Sakhara Matta, upgradation
Jan 9th
PESHAWAR, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Information Technology Mohammad Ayub Khan on Sunday inaugurated work on upgradation of government high school Sakhara Matta, in Swat to higher secondary school costing Rs17.6 million.
THE minister also inaugurated upgradation work of government girls middle school Sakhara Matta to high school costing Rs7.4 million.
Speaking on More >
School blown up in Waziristan MIRAMSHAH
Jan 8th
MIRAMSHAH, Militants bombed a school on Friday night and fired rockets at the base of paramilitary forces in North Waziristan Agency, official sources said.
They said that explosives were planted in the science laboratory of Government High School Miramshah that exploded late at night. The explosion caused substantial damage to the More >
girls’ school School damaged in Charsadda blast
Jan 7th
CHARSADDA: A government girls’ school was damaged in an explosion in Ibrahimzai village in Sardheri area on Thursday night, sources said. The sources said that explosive devices planted by the militants in the building of the Government Girls Middle School in Ibrahimzai village went off at night, causing partial damage More >
school colleges Public holiday on 9th January to mark Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai Urs Sindh government has declared
Jan 6th
Public holiday on 9th to mark Bhittai’s Urs Karachi
The Sindh government has declared Safar 14 (January 9) as a public holiday throughout the province on the occasion of the Urs of Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (RA) for all offices, autonomous, semi-autonomous bodies, corporations and local councils under the administrative More >
opportunity to study at jail Of jails and reforms: Juvenile inmates in Sukkur jail might get an education
Jan 3rd
Of jails and reforms: Juvenile inmates in Sukkur jail might get an education SUKKUR Seventeen-year-old Mohammad Ramzan Ujjan had never been to school. But he is happy that he has the opportunity to study at jail. “My elders were busy in tribal feuds,” he explained. “Nobody had the time to More >
School blown up in government school in Ziarat Kaka Sahib in Nowshera district
Dec 31st
School blown up in Nowshera
Our correspondent
NOWSHERA: Suspected militants blew up a government school in Ziarat Kaka Sahib in Nowshera district on Friday morning, police sources said. The sources said the militants had planted explosives on the premises of the Government Primary School for Boys in Shahabkhel and triggered a blast More >
Quaid’s alma mater upgraded to Sindh Madressatul Islam (SMI) School as a university
Dec 23rd
Quaid’s alma mater upgraded to university The Sindh Assembly unanimously passed a law on Thursday, upgrading the Sindh Madressatul Islam (SMI) School as a university. Senior Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq said the SMI, which has been running since 1875, was a pioneer Muslim educational institution and maintained the distinction More >











