Instit­utions with low enrolm­ent, perfor­mance to be affect­edPESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to merge 725 schools in the province which have low enrollment rates and are located within a few kilometres of each other. The decision was taken after the government discovered that there were a large number of schools set up by the previous governments without following the criteria for construction of new schools. According to the Elementary and Secondary Education Minister Atif Khan, most of the merged schools had been built by the previous governments for political gains. Since 2013, the E&SE Department has set up over 2,700 new schools in the province. Of these, 300 are higher secondary schools — taking their total number to 605, nearly doubled from the 308 schools in 2013.

Source: The Express Tribune December 13, 2017 05:03 UTC