Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Private Schools Regulatory Authority (KP-PSRA) has approved the new PSRA regulations under Section-30 of the KP-PSRA Act-2017 in compliance with the Peshawar High Court judgment passed on November 8, 2017, banning the increase in fees by private educational institutions until further directives.
Thinking of libraries conjures up images of dimly lit ancient halls reeking with the smell of mouldering books. Not an enticing one then, right? But a library which you probably don’t know exists on this very planet will make you want to read books forever.
The Punjab University has decided to give 80 kanals of its land to the federal government’s National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) against a sum of Rs 640 million, drawing a severe backlash from the varsity academic staff.
Terming its work for reforms in Punjab’s public sector schools successful, the Department for International Development (DFID) United Kingdom on Monday said it would continue supporting education reforms in Punjab until 2020.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has ordered district scrutiny committees across the province to supervise the new registration process and inspect the renewal process of previously registered schools to regulate private schools in KP.
The Punjab School Education Department (PSED) has banned dance performances by students in all private and government schools across the province.
A number of public universities in Punjab have been marred by administrative crisis due to the absence of permanent vice chancellors to run the affairs of some of the most important higher education institutes in the province. Some of the institutes have been running without a permanent head for almost three years now.
Exam time is often a time of great laziness, procrastination, botched attempts at prep marathons and a subsequent descent into panic. Stress gets the better of most students, forcing many to dedicate themselves to devising ingenious “methods” of making it through the test, rather than focusing on giving the coursework one final thorough revision.
While adapting to a rapidly changing world is fairly difficult for most humans, it becomes immensely difficult for universities that are massive in terms of both their infrastructure and the number of people associated to them. Yet you will be surprised to find how ancient behemoths of knowledge have transformed over centuries to remain relevant in the educational world even today, and in the process built on their historic prominence to become some of the most sought after institutions around the globe.
Private universities often find themselves at the receiving end of immense media and social criticism in case of slightest of irregularity highlighted by one of the several educational watchdogs operating in the country.