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Teachers announce boycott of non-academic duties
May 4th
LAHORE, May 3: Demanding higher pay scales, better allowances and job quota for their wards etc, hundreds of schoolteachers held a meeting-cum-demo at Nasser Bagh on Thursday, besides staging five sit-ins on The Mall.
They announced that they would boycott all non-academic duties as the authorities concerned had been ignoring their More >
DCO Noor-ul-Amin Mengal ordered Monitoring of teachers
May 2nd
LAHORE – DCO Noor-ul-Amin Mengal has said that district officers should make ensure the process of monitoring and 100 percent attendance of teachers in schools.
He expressed these views while presiding over the 16th review meeting of Education Department at Town Hall. He said that more funds would be allocated for More >
Cuts put music lessons at risk for all but the wealthy, say teachers
Apr 20th
Music education will remain the sole preserve of children from well-off families unless the Government pumps more money into the subject, an expert warns today.
Cuts to services will mean parents having to make up the shortfall in budgets, said Virginia Haworth-Galt, chief executive of the Federation of Music Services. More >
Teacher’s Death Exposes Tensions in Los Angeles
Apr 12th
When his body was found in a ravine in the Angeles National Forest, and the coroner ruled it a suicide, Mr. Ruelas’s death became a flash point, drawing the city’s largest newspaper into the middle of the debate over reforming the nation’s second-largest school district.
When The Los Angeles Times More >
The teachers tempted by administrative posts
Apr 11th
“The University has two distinct portfolios. One is academic in nature, whereas the other is administrative in function. It would not be advisable to switch over one in lieu of the other even as an ad hoc arrangement. It is waste of a good, highly-qualified professor in a subject to More >
students of the University of Education Police baton charge
Apr 1st
Police baton charge Education University students over protesting
Lahore, The police baton charged a large number of students of the University of Education (UoE) on Wednesday protesting against removal of two senior faculty members, Geo News reported.
They chanted slogans on second day of their campaign against the acting vice chancellor of More >
Wedlock policy: teachers may get limitless stay
Mar 22nd
ISLAMABAD: March 22: The six-month-long struggle of the much disturbed teachers working on deputation in Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) schools and colleges in Islamabad under the wedlock policy is almost ready to bear fruit.
According to a summary prepared by the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD), the government is More >
District Education Officer (DEO), Crackdown launched against ghost teachers in Khairpur
Mar 22nd
SUKKUR District Education Officer (DEO), Khairpur, on Wednesday launched a crackdown against ghost teachers.The DEO Khairpur, Ghulam Asghar Memon, paid surprise visits to a number of schools and during one such visit he found many teachers were absent. When he inquired from the students of the schools about absentee teachers More >
How teachers are treated at KU
Feb 19th
Academic session at KU to commence from 15thKarachi, Jan 07: The new academic session at the University of Karachi (KU) for the year 2011 will commence from January 15.
This was announced by the spokesperson of KU on Thursday. The date has been advanced from January 8 because the process of More >
Malala attends 6th Annual Teachers’ Development Conference organised by Roots National Institute of Teacher Training and Education,Malala attends teachers’ development conference
Feb 11th
Islamabad Malala attends teachers’ development conference The second day of the 6th Annual Teachers’ Development Conference organised by the Roots National Institute of Teacher Training and Education, in collaboration with Change-in Education, was full of intellect and learning on Friday on the theme of ‘Connect’, says a press release issued More >
Plan for monthly allowance to teachers rejected of teachers of government schools
Feb 10th
Hundreds of teachers of government schools have rejected the plan of the Punjab Government to give only monthly allowance to the educators in the annual budget 2012-2013.
The teachers headed by the representatives of the Punjab S.E.S Teachers Association, Rawalpindi District, including President Shafiq Bhulwalia expressed concern over the government plan More >
vice-chancellor and teachers of Sindh University Protesters’ leaders face the axe
Feb 9th
HYDERABAD, Feb 8: The tug of war between the vice-chancellor and teachers of Sindh University took a new twist on Tuesday night when a syndicate meeting at the Governor House in Karachi decided to terminate the services of two teachers’ leaders and suspend six others.
Although the university authorities have not More >
Fata medical college issue in North Waziristan
Feb 9th
MIRAMSHAH: Tribal elders on Wednesday threatened to set on fire the house of their lone member of the National Assembly (MNA), Kamran Khan, and block the Ghulam Khan-Khost Road if the government did not build the Fata Medical College in North Waziristan.
Speaking at a news conference, tribal elders including Malik More >
sexual exploitation and Child abuse cases increasing in Pakistan
Feb 8th
Islamabad
One could well imagine how vulnerable our children are to sexual exploitation and abuse by seeing the 2.27 per cent reported increase in such cases last year.
The tally of girls and boys abused in the country grew from 2,255 in 2010 to 2,303 in 2011, according to Sahil, a nongovernmental More >
Certificates awarded to 19 teachers Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad,
Feb 8th
Islamabad
The Faculty Development Academy (FDA) of Comsats Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Islamabad, in collaboration with the Learning & Innovation Division and Higher Education Commission distributed certificates among the nineteen teachers of public
sector colleges and universities in Islamabad on completing a one-month training workshop on ‘English for Specific Purpose’. More >
Sindh University SU protest: Boycott will continue until VC resigns, say teachers
Feb 5th
HYDERABAD: The agreement at Governor House on January 31, to end the teaching boycott at Sindh University (SU), came to an end after three days. The teachers announced on Friday that all academic activities will be suspended from February 6 and a five-hour token hunger strike will be observed until More >
Teachers vow to continue drive for reforms on University campuses
Feb 3rd
KARACHI, Teachers at a gathering held at Karachi University on Thursday warned the authorities that the movement launched at Sindh University, Jamshoro, was just a beginning and it would continue till the desperately needed structural reforms were made at all public sector universities in the province.
“Puppet vice chancellors” appointed through More >
Condolences over Punjab University vice-chancellor and faculty teacher’s death
Feb 3rd
THE Punjab University vice-chancellor and faculty have expressed grief and sorrow over the demise of Department of Kashmir Study Chairman Dr Muhammad Ashraf Qureshi.
In a condolence message, VC Mujahid Kamran said that Dr Muhammad Ashraf Qureshi had rendered great services for the university. He said he fully shared the More >
Sindh University Teachers Association vow to make up for loss
Feb 2nd
HYDERABAD, Feb 1: Leaders of Sindh University Teachers Association expressed delight at acceptance of all four demands by Sindh governor’s team on Wednesday and vowed to conduct classes for an extra month to compensate for the students’ loss during their campaign.
SUTA President Dr Azhar Shah said that teachers appreciated sending More >
30 protesting contractual teachers not to be regularised protest against the education department
Feb 2nd
Karachi
Almost 30 contractual teachers who took part in a protest against the education department on Tuesday will not be regularised for the time being.
The statement came on Wednesday from Education Minister Pir Mazhar-ul-Haq, who said the IBA-qualified teachers were assured that they would be regularised on the completion More >











