(Islamabad) All education ministers from across Pakistan will meet
on January 4 to decide about the reopening of schools which were closed to
contain the spread of coronavirus; Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood
said on Thursday. Shafqat Mahmood was responding to media queries about the
government's future course of action regarding educational institutes after
Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani said that it is unlikely that schools
would be allowed to reopen under the prevailing circumstances. The Inter Provincial
Education Ministers Conference (IPEMC) had earlier decided to shut all schools;
colleges; and universities from November 26 and announced that a review meeting
would be held in the first week of January. ‘The IPEMC would meet on January 4
to review the pandemic situation in the country and make a decision about
reopening of educational institutions;’ Shafqat Mahmood said. Saeed Ghani on
Wednesday said that after evaluating the coronavirus situation, it did not seem
possible that educational institutions would reopen in January 2021. Ghani had
reiterated his stance that unlike the last academic year; no student would be
promoted to the next year without taking the examination this year. Meanwhile;
the owners of private schools have threatened to hold a long march towards
Islamabad if schools were not allowed to resume classes from January 11.
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