KARACHI: Governor Sindh Dr. Ishrat-ul-Ebad has taken strict notice of the non-payment of salaries to teaching staff at the University of Karachi, and had instructed university administration to resolve all conflicts over the matter.
LIMA: Ninety-two children and three teachers were poisoned in northern Peru when a plane fumigating nearby fields sprayed a weed-killer too close to their school, local media said Wednesday.
LAHORE: The Punjab Teachers Unions protest against impending privatization of government schools outside the Punjab Assembly has entered second day , ARY News reported.
QUETTA: Chief Minister Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Zehri on Thursday admitted that the killing of teachers and abandoning of the province by some educators resulted in declining the standard of education in Balochistan, ARY News reported.
KARACHI: Sindh police on Wednesday charged teachers, who were demanding salaries from the government, with batons and used water cannons to disperse them in Karachi, ARY News reported.
PESHAWAR: Members of the faculty at Peshawar University on Friday slammed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan's visit to the campus and termed it 'open political interference', according to a press statement.
CHARSADDA, PAKISTAN/ISLAMABAD: Stuck with 15 of his students on a third floor balcony of a campus building as gunmen came up the stairs, university director Mohammad Shakil urged Pakistani police arriving at the scene to toss him up a gun so he could shoot back.
BERLIN: Germany has recruited 8,500 people to teach child refugees German, as the country expects the number of new arrivals to soar past the million mark in 2015, Die Welt daily reported Sunday.
KARACHI: Police on Wednesday resorted to baton-charge on teachers protesting in pursuance of their demands in the red zone near Chief Minister House, ARY News reports.
QUETTA: Authorities have halted funding to hundreds of "ghost schools" and fired 450 absentee teachers, with officials vowing Tuesday to launch a crackdown on the practice in Baluchistan.
PATNA: Some 1,400 primary school teachers have quit in an eastern Indian state in recent months amid an ongoing investigation into fake qualifications, an education official said Friday.
MARIGNANE, FRANCE: The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight appears to have deliberately crashed the plane after locking his captain out of the cockpit, French officials said, with the "unimaginable" development sparking global shock and anger among victims' loved ones.
SEOUL: South Korea has developed smartphone apps to help bring down its high student suicide rate by warning parents when their children might be at risk, the education ministry said Friday.
SUKKUR: Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah has said that the decision of accepting the military court was taken with regret, ARY News reports.
LONDON: Britain will introduce new laws to combat female genital mutilation (FGM) including making it compulsory for teachers and health workers to report cases, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday.