Tag Archives: Education

Adnan Aamir According to reports of Educational awareness groups, 2.3 million children are out of school in Balochistan. Literacy rate of the province is a mere 39 percent. In order to increase literacy rate in the province, current government led by Dr. Malik Baloch imposed an educational emergency. Educational budget was increased to 26% of the total budget which is ...

Gwadar – District Education Officer of Gwadar, Mohammed Jan Raza Baloch, addressed the educators and examiners in the district hall during a workshop as part of the provincial government’s “No cheating will be tolerated” campaign on Thursday. A number of school principals and teachers from throughout the district were invited to attend the workshop. They were strictly informed to follow ...

Zafarullah Barech Government of Balochistan has decided to install CCTV cameras in examination halls to bring an end to practice of cheating. Such steps are greeted with rejoice but before its implementation, the government needs to play a crucial role in eliminating hierarchal educational system. The children of rich are taught oxford books in basic classes and when they reach ...

Sami Parvez  I am writing this article as a rebuttal to Flip Side of the Story: Plight of School Teachers written by Atif Abid. Article-19 of constitution of Pakistan allows every citizen to practice freedom of speech. I used my right as enshrined in constitution of this country, when I raised the issue vis-a-vis private school teachers in my article ...

Quetta – Cheating will not be tolerated in exams in Balochistan anymore, said secretary education on Friday. Secretary education Abdul Saboor Kakar said this while addressing a press conference along with advisor to Chief Minister on Education, Sardar Raza Barech and Advisor on forests and Livestock Obaidullah Jan Babat. Speaking at the occasion, Secretary Education Abdul Saboor Kakar announced that ...

Atif Abid This is in response to the letter of Sami Parvez “Plight of private School teachers”, published in The Balochistan Point on 27th of January 2015. The incident that writer has talked about in that article is not actually what about happened. This point of the writer that the private schools have become the source of business or earning ...

Sami Parvez I am writing this article about an event which happened in a private school in Turbat. First of all, let me share some secrets of private institutions. What is their role in our society and what are they doing?  No doubt, Private schools and other institute owners are looting the Baloch nation. They are becoming rich day by ...

Adnan Aamir National Testing Service (NTS) is Pakistan’s premier testing body. It was established in 2002 and since then it has been evolved into a modern testing system. Main reason for its success is that it’s self reliant, autonomous and free from control of government bureaucracy. NTS has over 300 clients and 1.8 million candidates took NTS tests last year. ...