The Elementary and Secondary Education Department (ESED) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has sanctioned and functionalized more than 1,700 schools of different categories in the province during last 3 years.
Senior officials of the department said that the provincial government is working on education reforms which include infrastructure development and improving teaching quality in schools through a series of initiatives such as provision of missing facilities, stipend and vouchers programs for students, improvement in governance through IMU and Automated Action Management and training of more than 83,000 teachers through international education partners such as British Council and Jolly Phonics.
The Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (ESED) has successfully established about 105 new schools in KP. All of these schools carefully resourced and functioning according to the data available at ESED.
In 2013, the Department started functionalizing schools which were not in operation; some of them were constructed back in 1980s. In last 3 years, the Department functionalized 539 primary schools, 386 were updated primary to middle, 385 middle to secondary and 207 secondary to higher secondary schools in addition to the conversion of 112 mosque schools to primary schools.
Additionally, international partners also facilitated in construction of schools which made possibility of additional establishment of 115 non-ADP schools in KP. Altogether, the current government has sanctioned 1748 schools where the work started in 2013 and following years. With addition of 1748, thousands of students will be benefited.
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