Monday, April 3, 2017

High-achieving students to be honoured at PM House

Claiming the enforcement of the PM’s Education Reforms Programme in the federal capital is delivering the goods, the premier’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, has congratulated the students, who secured top positions in the recent middle and eighth grade examinations conducted by the Federal Directorate of Education and said she would invite them to the PM House to honour them.


Maryam Nawaz oversees the PMERP, which was launched in the Islamabad Capital Territory in December 2015 to upgrade or put up buildings, computer labs, playgrounds and other facilities at government schools and colleges, besides providing them with buses.

The FDE regulating ICT schools had announced the results of the centralised annual fifth and eighth grade examinations on March 31 showing a pass rate of over 90 per cent.

The students of Islamabad’s model schools and colleges and private educational institutions, and private candidates had sat the exams held in February. In a message on Twitter, an online news and social networking service, Maryam Nawaz congratulated the top exam position holders.

She attributed the good exam results to the PMERP saying the reforms had begun to bear fruit. “(There’s) a huge improvement in the exam results with implementation of PM Education Reforms Programme.”

The PM’s daughter said she would invite the high-achieving students to the PM for ‘shabash’ (commendation). “The public sector (schools) students have beaten their counterparts in the private sector in grade 5 centralised exams,” she said, adding that the students of federal government schools had also shown excellent results in the middle standard exams.

Maryam Nawaz said computer laboratories were being established in 107 government schools of Islamabad’s rural areas as an information and communications technology for girls initiative under the PMERP, while the remaining girls’ schools in Islamabad would be covered soon to the benefit of around 90,000 girls. She said 97 teachers were to be recruited for training as master trainers by the Microsoft Corporation, an American multinational technology company. 

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