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Teaching methods From Computer to education, Intel helps change lives Around 14,000 teachers will be recruited by the government

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KARACHI:
What is the first thing that pops into your head when you hear someone talk about Intel?
Micro-chips? Computer processors?
But Intel’s investment is also in education and it spends approximately $100 million in 50 different countries around the world, including Pakistan.
On Wednesday, Intel Pakistan organised its eighth annual Education Awards Ceremony at Pearl Continental Hotel for outstanding teachers in Sindh. Through the Intel Teach Programme, they train teachers to use technology to help their students learn more. To date, Intel has trained more than 300,000 teachers in 75 districts of the country.
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Space academy to train teachers

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A new academy has been set up to enable teachers to use space as a theme in their core subject lesson plans.
The National Space Centre in Leicester is to lead the programme to promote excellence in science, technology, geography and maths.
Teachers will be able to access training and work alongside scientists to deliver space masterclasses.
The academy is being sponsored by a number of high-tech firms to promote careers in the aerospace industry.
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Punjab University students, staff and teachers participated in rally

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LAHORE:Thousands of Punjab University students, staff and teachers participated in a rally on Wednesday condemning the Nato attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.The protesters gathered at the Institute of Business Administration in the morning and then marched behind Vice Chancellor Prof Mujahid Kamran though the campus. The enthusiastic participants shouted slogans and carried banners and placards condemning the “barbaric” attack, backing the armed forces and paying tribute to the fallen soldiers.Addressing the rally, Prof Kamran said the “unprovoked attack” should be considered an act of war. He said he had never seen the nation so angry.
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Teachers’ pensions strike dilemma

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Secondary school head teacher Siobhan Lowe has been lying at awake at night agonising about whether to join the public sector pensions strike.

She agrees with the concerns her union – the National Association of Head Teachers – has about changes to teachers’ pensions, fearing these will see teachers having to work longer, pay more and get less from their pensions.

But, as a head teacher, she feels she has a moral duty not to strike.

“I have this moral dichotomy about being a head teacher and closing my school. I don’t want to deprive the pupils of their education – it’s a real dilemma,” she says.
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Gove warns teachers over strikes

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Michael Gove has warned teachers there is no hidden “pot of gold” to improve the deal the government is offering in the dispute over pensions.

Speaking to the Times Educational Supplement ahead of next week’s planned strikes across the UK, the education secretary said he was willing to talk.
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notification assuring Upgradation package Teachers perplexed over delays, modalitie

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It has been a month since the notification assuring the time-scale formula for promotion of federal government colleges’ teachers was issued. Yet the issue has had no visible progress.
After a prolonged boycott of classes by the teachers, the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) and Capital Administration and Development Authority (CADD) in October approved the time-scale formula for teachers’ promotion, as announced by the prime minister (PM) in 2010.
However, the teachers are yet to benefit from the package due to some “complicated conditions for their promotions”, according to Federal Government Colleges Teachers Association (FGCTA).
FGCTA Secretary General Professor Tahir Mehmood said, “The teachers are confused by the perplexing conditions laid down for their promotions.
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KARACHI Teachers appointed three years ago Permanent status Teachers rally for permanent jobs

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KARACHI Teachers appointed three years ago on contract to primary and secondary schools by the Sindh Education department, have demanded permanent jobs. They protested outside the Karachi press club on Tuesday. The teachers, from the IBA Teachers Action Committee, carried placards and banners with slogans written against Sindh Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq. The teachers said their contracts had expired in July but the department had not made their jobs permanent even though this was decided by the Sindh government.

Teachers vote for pensions strike

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Thousands of teachers in the UK have voted to strike over changes to their pensions and pay.

The NASUWT union said 80% of those who voted backed the action, but added it was “not inevitable” that its members would strike on 30 November with other public sector workers.

It has announced its members will work to rule from 1 December.
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LAKKI MARWAT Primary school teachers Withheld salaries self-immolation

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LAKKI MARWAT Primary schoolteachers have threatened to set up hunger strike camp and commit self-immolation if the education authorities did not release their stopped salaries forthwith.
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Teachers Demands Restoration of Controller Of Examinations Joint Action Committee

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LAHORE: The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of teachers has demanded Punjab government to restore the controller of examinations of all intermediate and secondary education boards who were terminated after the failure of boards’online system.
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