Ambassador of United Kingdom to Egypt Mr. John Casson visited the head office of Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) on Thursday

Ambassador of United Kingdom to Egypt Mr. John Casson visited the head office of Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) on Thursday to study its free education programs for the low income families in the Punjab.

On the occasion, Chairman PEF Qamar ul Islam Raja and Managing Director Tariq Mahmood briefed the UK envoy about important role being played by Punjab Education Foundation in the field of school education to help open the doors of educational institutions on children of low income families who cannot afford such schooling on their own due to lack of resources.

Chairman PEF Mr. Raja said that more than two million most deserving male and female students are getting free quality education through the network of more than six thousand partner schools situated in all the 36 districts of the province. This has opened new avenues for hapless communities to step forward through the education of their children.

PEF provides monthly fee ranging from Rs. 550 to Rs. 1100 per student to school partners according to school category, besides providing textbooks free of cost. It is sanguine to note that 45 percent of the beneficiaries are girls while non-muslim Pakistani communities are equally benefitting from the foundation’s programs. PEF has also initiated inclusive education project in the districts of Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi and Vehari by involving its partner schools. The purpose is to rehabilitate and strengthen the differently abled students through education. Other developing countries can also improve access to education by introducing PEF type model and helping the indigent strata to send their kids to schools offering free education.

The UK ambassador was also apprised about IT based interventions and teachers training system so that partner school teachers could work and deliver better. In order to ensure smooth working of partner schools and to arrange better monitoring, district level monitoring mechanism has also been established. UK envoy John Casson put up different questions to fully understand PEF's role and working strategy. He commended the good work of foundation and observed that PEF brand is very strong.

Different program directors also briefed the meeting about their role in promotion of education at the grassroots.

Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) is the largest public-sector program of providing free schooling facilities to as much as 1.9 million most-needy students in the province.

Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) is the largest public-sector program of providing free schooling facilities to as much as 1.9 million most-needy students in the province. It is sanguine to note that 45 percent of them are girls. This foundation has also strengthened the low-cost private schools through its public private partnership based programs. It has been observed that PEF sponsored free schooling facilities are a great boon for the low-income families as they cannot afford schooling expenses of their children.

MD PEF Tariq Mahmood said this while presiding over weekly coordination meeting at his office on Wednesday. PEF program directors and other officers attended the meeting. The meeting reviewed pace of expansion of public private partnership based initiatives for the disfranchised communities.

MD PEF observed that transparency and merit-based policies are two conspicuous features of the foundation. While discussing programs’ ongoing expansions, he made it clear that any attempt for partnership through fake school registration certificates will not be tolerated.

While PEF is working hard to timely pay monthly dues to the school partners, school heads should ensure that their students’ record in the PEF server remains most updated. They should also maintain an updated record of teachers in addition to keeping parents’ updated details, he said.

The meeting maintained that provision of suitable salary to school-teachers is encouraged and proposed that teachers’ pay should also be mentioned in partnership agreements in future. The meeting noted that only those partner school teachers should be offered free capacity building trainings whose data is maintained in Teachers Information System (TIS) of the foundation.

The meeting was further told that government employees are ineligible for any partnership with the foundation and therefore, such partners are already offered to transfer school’s partnership to a non-governmental blood relative. The meeting proposed that nearby private schools should be offered partnership to help the students to continue their free education if any such person fails to benefit from this facility.

The meeting expressed the satisfaction over timely distribution of 7.1 million textbooks in partner schools across the province.

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Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has announced the result of pre-quality assurance test of expansion phase 10 of Foundation Assisted School (FAS) program

LAHORE, April 15:

Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has announced the result of pre-quality assurance test of expansion phase 10 of Foundation Assisted School (FAS) program. A total of 2265 private schools took part in it to qualify for partnership with the foundation. The detailed result is uploaded at PEF official website for the convenience of intending partners.

          Meanwhile, PEF will complete distribution of around three lakh textbooks in its 358 school partners of the provincial metropolis, tomorrow. Provision of one lakh 48 thousand books to 95 partner schools of Mandi Yazman will also be completed, tomorrow. Similarly, provision of one lakh 23 thousand books to 92 Bahawalnagar schools and one lakh seven thousand textbooks to 110 schools in Mianwali was also completed on April 15.

Meanwhile, PEF Director (Education Voucher Scheme) Samina Nawaz has directed the school partners, through a departmental circular, to fill up annual census form and send the same to the foundation, maximum by April 20. PEF reserves the right to stop monthly payments and impose fine in case of non-compliance, the circular added.  

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Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has completed distribution of textbooks in Multan, DG Khan, Kot Chutta and Kot Addu tehsils.

Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has completed distribution of textbooks in Multan, DG Khan, Kot Chutta and Kot Addu tehsils.

According to PEF plans, books distribution in Shuja Abad and Rajanpur will be completed tomorrow; while two-day campaign of books distribution in Bahawalpur will conclude on coming Tuesday. Similarly, four-day books distribution drive in Muzaffargarh will end on April 07.  Meanwhile, 1,70,012 books will be given to 119 partner schools in Lodhran on April 05 and 06. PEF will also distribute textbooks in Mailsi and Mian Channu tehsils on April 06.

A total of 71 lakh textbooks will be distributed in PEF partnering schools in 36 districts of the province. For this purpose, 58 distribution points have been set up at tehsil and district levels in the Punjab.    

Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has completed the conduction of Quality Assurance Test (QAT)

Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has completed the conduction of Quality Assurance Test (QAT) of partner schools situated in Cholistan area of Bahawalpur Division. The students of 73 partner schools sit for the exams. The purpose of this examination was to observe academic standards of the schools.

PEF Additional Director (South) Mazhar Abbas also visited the schools and inspected the examination activity. During the visit, he said that tree plantation drive has also been started in the partner schools so that the students could be provided green environment.

Meanwhile, PEF Director (Foundation Assisted School) Zahid Ali has directed the school partners, whose registration or renewal is lifetime, to contact their concerned office of Executive District Officer (Education) for completing school registration / renewal process. They should submit the attested copy to the department, maximum by April 8. A reminder circular has been issued in this regard.  

He has also asked the school partners to follow the directions of the Punjab Government with regard to elimination of dengue threat in their schools. PEF has issued SOPs for the FAS schools in this regard. These SOPs are uploaded at PEF official website for partners’ convenience.

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