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The Punjab Schools Education Department is expected to face an unprecedented cut of five billion rupees in its development budget for the year 2010-2011, it is learnt.

Similarly, the province’s Higher Education Department has suffered a cut of two billion rupees, exposing tall claims of the Punjab government for promotion of education and provision of quality education to the students.

The Punjab government had allocated Rs 14.05 billion for the Schools Department and Rs 6.3 billion for the Higher Education Department under the Annual Development Programme 2010-2011. Continue reading

The practicals of Secondary School (Matriculation) Annual Examination 2011, being conducted by Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore, will commence from April 7. In a press statement issued on Monday, the BISE spokesman claimed that all the candidates had been provided roll number slips, however anyone failing to get the same should immediately contact the BISE office. He said the paper of Mathematics (compulsory) was held under strict vigilance on Monday. Continue reading

The political administration has reopened 19 schools in Darra Adamkhel after a reported assurance by Taliban that they will not attack educational institutions of girls.

Sources said that during clandestine talks, Taliban assured tribal elders that they would not attack schools for girls in the region. However, Frontier Region of Koat Assistant Political Agent Syed Gul Jamal, when contacted neither confirmed nor denied the promise made by Taliban. Continue reading