Students demonstrate for exam cancellation
July 7, 2021
Islamabad: A large number of matriculation and intermediate students demonstrated here on Tuesday to demand cancellation of their annual examinations.
They gathered outside the National Press Club (NPC) and shouted slogans. “We will continue our protest until the government cancels the exams,” a protester said, adding that the students are not ready for the exams, and forcing them to sit the exams is unfair.
Last week, students had held a protest outside the Higher Education Commission premises against in-person examinations for classes 9-12.
Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood, however, cleared that no student would be promoted to the next class without examinations this year.
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Pakistan has reopened schools in these cities
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After months of back and forth, schools in multiple cities across Pakistan reopened on Monday, May 24.
The National Command and Operation Centre announced, earlier this week, to resume classes in cities where the coronavirus infection rate was below 5%.
On Saturday, all the provincial governments held meetings to identify the districts where educational institutions should remain open and where they shouldn’t.
Here is what was finalised:
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The education ministry said Monday that intermediate and matric exams will be held in the third week of June.
Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood chaired an
inter-provincial meeting to discuss the date of examinations for intermediate
and matric students. Summer vacations and the vaccination of teachers were on the
agenda too.
The ministry after the meeting announced that exams will be held following strict SOPs, and no student will be promoted without sitting exams. Provinces will decide on summer vacations.