Provincial education ministers to decide on winter vacations today

The Inter-Provincial Education Ministers Conference (IPEMC) will be held on Tuesday (today) to decide on the date of winter vacations and vaccination of schoolchildren against coronavirus.

According to a circular issued by the Ministry of Education’s Additional Secretary Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani, the meeting will be held at 5.30 pm and will be attended by all provincial education ministers.

The meeting will discuss the proposal to shift the winter break to January 2022, review reforms related to the provincial education system and vaccination of children between the age groups of 12 to 18, among other things.

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The announcement for the conference comes a few days after the teaching and non-teaching staff of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) announced to call off their strike after 10 days and resumed educational activities.

The announcement came after the FDE Joint Action Committee held a plethora of talks with Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood and senior officials of the education ministry.