Category: Women and Education

LAKKI MARWAT: At least 130 of 290 government schools for girls have been made functional in South Waziristan district to facilitate local students, according to an official.

Ghulam Fatima, the district education officer of South Waziristan, told Dawn that the schools had been non-functional for a long time. She said that after assuming charge of her office, she took it as a challenge and with the support of tribal elders made all such schools operational.

She said that more than 8,000 students were enrolled in the state-run schools in the current year. She pledged to curb absenteeism and ensure teaching and learning activities in public sector schools in the district. “The heads of schools involved in keeping the campuses closed on one pretext or other will face stern departmental action,” she added.

Ms Fatima said that more than Rs21 million was deducted from the salaries of truant employees. “About 30 employees were removed or forced retired. We have also demoted two officials and stopped annual increments of 246 staffers on disciplinary grounds to control absenteeism,” she added.

She asked tribal people to send their daughters to schools as getting education was their fundamental right.

Source: Dawn

SHANGLA: All government girls schools in Shangla district have been facing shortage of teachers for three months as most teachers have got themselves transferred near their homes using political connections, thus badly impacting the education of students.

Officials in the education department, female section, said that almost all the schools were facing teachers’ shortage, particularly science subjects. They said that all girls schools were also without their heads.

Haroon Rasheed, the Shang village council chairman, said that the government girls high school in his area was the only lone school in the entire Bisham tehsil, but it had been facing shortage of six teachers for last three months after they got themselves transferred close to their residences.

“We want the government to fill the vacant posts of teachers in the school without delay because it is negatively impacting our children’s education. My three daughters are also enrolled in the school,” he said.

Ihsanullah, a resident of Kormang area, said the only primary girls school in his village had been running with only a single teacher after the other got her transferred around four months ago.

He said the villagers had requested the deputy commissioner and the local education department officials to appoint the teacher to the school, but to no avail.

Parven Rehman, district education officer, female, also confirmed the schools were facing shortage of teachers, especially the science and mathematics teachers.

She said that the problem was that that Shangla mostly consisted of hard terrains, due to which teachers avoided being posted in the remote schools. She said that there was no local teacher available in such schools.

Ms Rehman said that all the girls high and secondary schools in the district had been without head teachers – headmistress or principal. She said most of the subject specialists’ posts were vacant in the district.

The education official said that she had sent many requests to the directorate of education to fill the vacant posts, but to no effect.

Source: DAWN

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Saturday, while inaugurating transport services to the Government Associate College for Women Manghot, Gujar Khan, said that education is a cardinal factor for women’s empowerment.

“The provision of basic facilities to promote women’s education would enhance women’s literacy rate across the country,” he said.

Ashraf said providing transport facilities to the girls who travel 40kms to reach the college would encourage them to complete their education. It is pertinent to mention that National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf visited the Government Associate College for Women Manghot on May 30, 2023.

Source:  The News

LAHORE: Nazia Ilyas becomes the first female nurse to obtain a PhD degree in Nursing Science, which created a new history across Punjab.

She has completed this PhD on the subject of “Quality of midwifery care for child bearing women at basic health units in rural Pakistan” from Chiang Mai University, Thailand.

PhD degree in nursing science is the first achievement of any female nurse. Nazia Ilyas is currently serving as Nursing Superintendent in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore.

Earlier, she was posted as Principal in College of Nursing and Midwifery in Fatima Jinnah Medical University and Nursing Superintendent in Kot Khawaja Saeed Hospital. She also served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Health Sciences, Lahore. Former Principal Post Graduate College of Nursing Punjab Ishrat Ishaq while congratulating Nazia Ilyas on her outstanding achievement said that she has made the name of this field bright by doing PhD in Nursing Science.

Source: The news

LAHORE: Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman said that special attention is being given to strengthening the links between academia and industry in the universities.

He said that the education and empowerment of women are very important for the development of society. He said this while talking to Government College Women University, Faisalabad Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Robina Farooq who paid a farewell call on Punjab Governor at Governor’s House here on Monday. During the meeting, Governor Punjab appreciated the services of Prof Dr. Robina Farooq and expressed his best wishes for her future.

Source: The News