In line with directives of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Punjab government has announced “health and physical education” as mandatory across 52,000 private and public schools across the province. Administrations of all the primary, middle and higher secondary schools have been notified to implement the directives with immediate effect.
The Punjab government has decided to start evening school shifts from next academic year starting from March 2019, in order to accommodate students in overcrowded primary schools, was said by Punjab Finance Minister Makhdoom Jawan Bakhat Hashim during the review meeting of the Annual Development Programme (ADP).
The Punjab government is working to bring three new education bills that aim to change the mechanisms of school education in the province.
Days after Punjab Governor Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar hinted at changing the administrative hierarchy in public universities across the province, the provincial government has decided to bring in necessary changes to the law to abolish the post of pro-chancellor.
The new provincial government has decided to look into and alter the legislation governing Punjab’s private schools . The law for private schools in Punjab, The Punjab Private Educational Institutions (Promotion & Regulations) (Amendment) Act 2017, is likely to be altered to accommodate the PTI government’s agenda of reforms.
The Punjab government has initiated the process of appointment of vice chancellors at public universities in the province, beginning with Punjab Higher Education Department (HED) advertising a request for applications for the vacant post of University of Sahiwal VC.
The Punjab government has made progress in the appointment process of vice chancellors at four public sector universities of the province following Supreme Court chief justice’s displeasure over universities being run without regular vice chancellors.
The Punjab Chief Minster’s Special Monitoring Unit (SMU) has launched Pakistan’s first rural Innovation Hub for youth economic development in district Layyahin in collaboration with youth development organisation Bargad and Oxfam .
The provincial government has ordered vetting of all textbooks used in higher education institutions across Punjab to cleanse the curriculum of objectionable material and curb the trends of extremism seen rising at institutions across Pakistan.
