Community schools in KP planned; 100 ECR constructing in merged areas
PESHAWAR (APP): Establishment of community schools mostly in remote and far-flung districts of Khyber Pakthunkhwa were planned by the KP government to bring street children under education net.
These schools would be established in areas where the government and private schools were not available within two kilometers distance. KP education department’s official told APP on Wednesday that recommendations for establishment of community schools were finalized and particle work on it would soon start. Besides boys, girls’ students would be largely benefited.
Interested stakeholders were asked to submit applications for establishment of community schools by September 10. KP education foundation have invited applications for establishment of primary, middle, high and higher secondary schools that would be run with the assistance of communities.
He said a second shift in government schools began in KP where enrolled students were being taught by the qualified teachers recruited through parents’ teachers councils.
Every school would be provided with tablet PCs for education of young children, and the government schools were being equipped with furniture worth Rs six billion to facilitate 2.6 million children in the province.
Besides establishment of digital laboratories under the smart school initiative and children enrollment program, he said 5000 early childhood rooms (ECR) were constructed and 100 more such rooms are being built in merged tribal districts.(APP)
