CM hails working of by working group of higher education

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pervez Khattak has appreciated the hard work of all members of the Working Group including University Professors for preparing vibrant recommendations for promotion of higher education and assured that like other sectors their recommendations would be given practical and legal cover. The chief minister was talking to a delegation of professors […]

IJT flays UoP admin

   An office-bearer of the Islami Jamiat-i-Talaba (IJT) on Sunday accused the Peshawar University administration of backing a group of students that, he alleged, was involved in the firing at participants of a walk and injuring a student. In a press statement issued on Sunday, the IJT President for the University of Peshawar Campus, Hafeezullah, […]

PTI’s education reforms agenda in jeopardy

The major component of the education reforms agenda of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf ‘devolution of power to the school level’ was in doldrums as it would put additional burden of more than Rs1 billion on the provincial kitty annually, sources said. They said that elementary and secondary education department was yet to justify creation of 2,110 vacancies […]

‘Reforms in education sector to yield result’

Provincial Minister for Zakat and Auqaf Habibur Rehman Khan has said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is committed to implementing its reforms agenda in education sector. He said restoration of peace to the province and end to corruption in departments topped government’s priority list. “The introduction of accountability and access to information bills are the […]