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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on education in 2020 cannot be underestimated. By some estimates, 1.7 billion students were affected, in over 190 countries, by some form of school closure. Millions of young people along with their teachers and parents had to adapt to new ways of learning; in some cases, this happened overnight. The immediate need to continue education meant that governments and schools had to be creative.
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Madaris to teach SSC subjects
July 14, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The PTI-led government has approved a project for the establishment of Directorate General of Religious Education under the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training and will register all religious seminaries (madaris) for introducing contemporary subjects of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and Higher Secondary School (HSSC) levels.
These subjects will be introduced into religious seminaries over the next five years in order to bring them into the mainstream. Such projects in the name of Madrassa reforms were introduced during the Musharraf/Shaukat Aziz regime but it failed to bring desired results.
In the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) meeting presided over by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan here, a project related to education sector was presented in the meeting i.e. “Establishment of Directorate General of Religious Education” worth Rs1,253.4 million. It was appro