Education minister Shafqat Mehmood has confirmed after national meeting that
School holidays are extended till 15th July 2020 in all over Pakistan due to COVID-19 rising attacks. All schools, colleges, and universities will reopen on 15th rising 2020 now. All board exams for matric, first year and year are canceled. Now the students will be promoted in the next classes based on their previous results. The education committee has decided this after having meetings with provincial education ministers and board heard.
School holidays are extended till 15th July 2020 in all over Pakistan due to COVID-19 rising attacks. All schools, colleges, and universities will reopen on 15th rising 2020 now. All board exams for matric, first year and year are canceled. Now the students will be promoted in the next classes based on their previous results. The education committee has decided this after having meetings with provincial education ministers and board heard.
Earlier Punjab, Baluchistan, and Sindh opposed the reopening of schools on 1 June due to rising corona cases in Pakistan. Only KPK education minister Akbar Ayub stressed to reopen schools on Ist June.
A few days back an education board correspondent pointed towards the cancellation of board exams. "It takes at least three months to arrange furniture, staff, stationery and other stuff to conduct board exam. Looking at the situation, it doesn't seem possible to conduct exams from June 15,' she explained.
How the board students will be promoted to a new class, will be decided soon.
At one side parents are overwhelmed and stressed with online schooling and bulk of assignments given by the school then on another side, private school teachers are worried about the decision. Schools need to balance
their online classes considering the fact that parents are not teachers. It's hard to make children sit, explain, and force them to do assignments.
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