Action against schools operating amid closure
Classrooms are crowded as pupils start the new school year in Yemen, especially since over 2,500 schools have closed in the country's civil war, with those open taking on as many extra students as they can. PHOTO: AFP
Taking notice of private schools continuing business despite closure orders, Deputy Commissioner Agha Zaheer Abbas Sherazi on Friday ordered education officials to start checking private schools, colleges and academies. The action was ordered observing that lives of the school children were to be protected amid the 2nd wave of the coronavirus pandemic. Presiding over a meeting to review education department's performance from September 15 to November 25, the deputy commissioner said that protecting lives of students was the foremost priority amid worsening situation regarding novel coronavirus. The DC warned that no one would be allowed to open school, colleges or tuition centres. He asked education department officials to check the private educational institutions instead of sitting in their offices. He further said that teachers should maintain contact with students for their guidance through different means of communications and initiate online classes upon receiving orders from the government. The officials informed the DC that inspection of education institutions revealed that as many as 14 teachers were absent from their duty and had been issued warning while inquiry was in progress against three teachers.