ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Educational Institutions across Pakistan will reopen on January 18, according to the Minister for Federal Education Shafqat Mahmood
However, initially Classes 9, 10, 11, 12 will open on January 18, 2021 and later the Early Childhood Education (CEC) – from Class 1 to Class 8 – will begin on January 25.
The Universities and all Higher Education Institutions across the Country will open on February 1, 2021, the federal minister said.
وفاقی وزیر تعلیم @Shafqat_Mahmood نے بین الصوبائی وزرائے تعلیم اجلاس میں کئے جانے والے فیصلوں کا علان کیا ۔ نویں سے بارہویں جماعتوں کے لئے تعلیمی ادارے 18 جنوری سے ، پہلی سے آٹھویں جماعتوں کے لئے 25 جنوری سے اور ملک بھر میں تمام جامعات یکم فروری سے کھل جائیں گے ۔ pic.twitter.com/UJldZfijsu
— Ministry of Federal Education/ProfessionalTraining (@EduMinistryPK) January 4, 2021
The minister also said that teachers and administrative staff will be allowed to ensure their presence in educational institutions from January 11 and resume the home-based online education.
The education minister further announced that the board exams slated to be held in March and early April have been postponed and now they will be held in May and June 2021.
All Board exams have been postponed to May June. Let me emphasise that this year nobody will be promoted without exams
— Shafqat Mahmood (@Shafqat_Mahmood) January 4, 2021
Shafqat Mahmood said that all educational institutions will have 50 percent of students on alternate days as before.
Earlier in the morning, the Meeting of the Inter-Provincial Education Ministers was held on video link with the Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood in the Chair.
The forum discussed the prevailing situation of the second wave of COVID-19 and the reopening of educational institutions across the Country.
The meeting also deliberated upon the beginning of the new academic session from August and the reduction of Spring and Summer vacations.
وفاقی وزیر تعلیم @Shafqat_Mahmood کی سربراہی میں بین الصوبائی وزرائے تعلیم اجلاس جاری۔ کورونا کی صورت حال کا جائزہ لینے کے بعد تعلیمی اداروں کو کھولنے، تعلیمی سال اگست سے شروع کرنے اور گرما۔کی تعطیلات کے شیڈول پر غور۔
وفاقی وزیر اجلاس کے بعد اہم پریس کانفرنس کریں گے pic.twitter.com/YhoymqmRXj— Ministry of Federal Education/ProfessionalTraining (@EduMinistryPK) January 4, 2021
