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Education Sector

All schools and colleges in Punjab to remain close from Nov 13 2024

Punjab education department have notified that all the schools and colleges will remain close all over punjab from Nov 13, 2024 to Nov 17, 2024. This includes all the public and private sector schools in the vicinity of Punjab province. Wherever, the facility is available, these educational institutions will switch to online mode and classes will continue as per routine but from home. This decision was taken in wake of prevailing smog condition in the province and the related reduced visibility. Smog which was only a problem for city of Lahore from few weeks is recently seen in other cities of Punjab, as far as the city of Rawalpindi. Also the adjacent city, Islamabad, got affected by the smog. However, […]

Education Sector

School and College Holidays in Pakistan for Year 2024

In Pakistan the students of schools, colleges and higher educational institutions enjoy a long list of holidays in a year. Along with national and public holidays, the holiday calender of students in Pakistan inlcude more sets of holidays. These extra holidays normally include but are not limited to 2.5 to 3 months of summer holidays. Similarly, students here in Pakistan also enjoy 2 or more weeks of winter holidays. Also similarly the educational institutions in hilly areas also announce similarly such long holidays for their students and teachers. However, timings or schedule of these does not match with the ones offered to the students, who live in the normal lower grounds. So a full list of holidays which will be […]

Education Sector

Punjab announces holiday on Sep 28 to contain the Pink Eye infection

Government of Punjab in Pakistan have announced a holiday to contain the Pink Infection, which is spreading like wildfire these days. It is also affecting the school going children. Holiday is announced for Thursday, September 28, 2023. All the public and private schools to remain close on Sep 28, 2023. Friday, September 29, 2023 is already a holiday in Pakistan as it is Eid Milad un Nabi day. So school will now open on Monday, Oct 2, 2023. The viral Pink Eye infection and related disease is said to be highly contagious. So starting from the monday, all the students, specially in the schools and colleges, will be screened on gates and will be denied entry into the school or […]

Education Sector

How to check Federal Board 2023 annual exams results for SSC and HSSC

Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Pakistan (FBISE) have already announced the results of both SSC part 1 and part 2. Both metric and intermediate exam results can be checked on the official results page setup by federal board for results by just selecting your program like SSC or HSSC and the part 1 or 2 and entering the role number in the field below. However, at the time of writing of this article, only the results of metric 2023 are available and the results of intermediate 2022. However, as soon as the results of intermediate 2023 are announced, they will be updated on the results page. Also the official results page of FBISE (linked above) also lists the […]

Education Sector

All Punjab Govt Schools to get Internet access now

While all the branches of many private school networks have internet access in their computer labs as an essential feature, on same time many govt schools lack the same. However, now Punjab Education Department (PED) have decided to provide internet access to all schools under it, all across the punjab province. Decision have been taken to equip the schools with the needs of twenty-first century, where internet access is an essential facility to have. However, here at ‘Info Pakistan’ we feel that internet facility without the properly equipped labs, which have the latest operating systems and softwares, will be just waste. So special attention is needed to be put on setting up the computer labs in Punjab Govt schools where […]