Schools to be Reopened in 18 January: Education Ministry

 

This decision was made during the first inter-provincial meeting of the Ministers for Education of 2021 that was chaired by the Federal Minister for Education, Shafqat Mahmood, and convened via video conferencing to discuss the prospect of reopening schools from 11 January.

The meeting included a briefing by officials from the Ministry of Health on the COVID-19 situation across Pakistan, in light of which it was mutually decided to reopen the educational institutes in phases starting from 18 January onwards.

Secondary schools and colleges (grades 9, 10, 11, and 12) will be reopened from 18 January in the first phase, followed by primary schools in both the public and private sectors from 25 January in the second phase. All the institutions will have 50 percent of their students attend on alternate days. Meanwhile, universities across the country will start on-campus classes from 1 February.